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announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from buffalo, new york. good evening from buffalo. a still proud but deeply wounded community asking tonight, why us. why a teenager traveled hundreds of miles to this city, to this block, to this grocery store to allegedly seek out black people to kill today we learn the gun attack that killed ten and injured three may not have gone entirely as planned police believe the shooter, pumped up on false and racist conspiracy theories, intended to head down the street and shoot more people. thankfully he was stopped and arrested it came on the same weekend as a mass shooting at a southern california church, an attack on taiwanese church members being investigated tonight as a hate crime that was politically motivated. we ll have more on that in a few moments. let s begin here with the pain, remembrances, and fear in buffalo tonight, buffalo still struggling to come to terms with how someone could turn a s
joined me just moments ago. who taught him to hate like that. people that were killed were decent, law abiding people just doing what normal people do on a saturday. this is already being investigated as a hate crime. of the 13 people shot in the attack, 11 of the victims were black, and we re learning more about them, including the security guard that gave his life, there he is, trying to save others. had he not been there, more lives would have been lost and the community knows mr. salter. i had several times shopping, he was beloved by the community. he was a great person, a wonderful personality. anyone that knows him will tell you nothing different. that security guard one of the victims. the suspect is an 18-year-old white man. he allegedly chose and targeted this supermarket because it was in a majority black zip code and within driving distance where he lived. cnn learned a 180 page manifesto posted online before the attack reveals a meticulous, chilling level
but the full scope of the tragedy can only be conveyed in stories, names, faces of people taken too soon. the deadliest shooting in buffalo, new york. police say a gunman driven by hate toward the black community killed ten people, injured three others at a supermarket there. among those that died in the shooting, an 86-year-old mother of a retired buffalo fire commissioner as well as a former buffalo police officer who died exchanging gunfire with the shooter. this morning, police say the 18-year-old suspect was planning to continue his carnage if not stopped. president biden and the first lady head to buffalo tomorrow to meet with families of the victims. begin in buffalo. victor blackwell is there for us. victor, what are you learning about the victims? reporter: ten people killed. all the stories tragic. imagine this. andres mcneal was here purchasing cupcakes. he lost his father on the day they were celebrating his birthday. you mentioned the mother of the former fire
hate-fuelled rampage. in a 180 page racist rant, posted online moments before the shooting, it shows his planning before the attack. that suspect now on suicide watch, and under constant supervision. tomorrow president biden set to travel to buffalo where he ll meet with the victim s families and it s those lives we ll want to remember. we are also following a shooting in southern california today. this happened at a church in laguna woods over the weekend. entering a lunch reception where one person was killed. a number of people in attendance were able to overpower the suspect, hog tieing him, before police arrived. let s begin in buffalo with weather we are live on the scene with the latest on the investigation. first, what more are we learns about this suspect s plan which apparently we re not going to end at the tops market? reporter: no, they were not police say based on the writings, the documents that they have now reviewed and they believe belong to the alleged s