This was random. was he a former employee. you know, what were the circumstances? why the tops? why that place? as a location for this shooting. and you mentioned mass shootings. my understanding downtown milwaukee a lot of people were shot yesterday after a basketball game. so this is going to continue. it s not going to stop. candle light vigils and everything people do is not going to fix anything. it s going to continue. just a matter of when and where. it s unfortunate, but it s true. and so many on the weekends as we report nearly every weekend right here on cnn. chief ramsey, thanks so much. we re going to stay on top of that, obviously. if the buffalo police department, other authorities hold a press conference, we ll get you the latest and the governor of new york has been tweeting about this. here s her tweet. she said i m closely monitoring the shooting at a grocery store in buffalo. if you re in buffalo, please avoid the area and follow
I m going to have you zoom on officers are heavily armed. they are guarding this scene. they are trying to that reporter just coming in for wkbw. we should note cnn still in the process of trying to confirm some of those details but our thanks to our affiliate with that information. chief, here we go again. another weekend. more mass shootings in this country. and the situation in buffalo, you could just tell from the scene there from the video from the affiliate a few moments ago, a very crowded area and if somebody wanted to come in and do this kind of damage, that was a terribly perfect setting for it i suppose. yeah, and you mentioned earlier, premeditated. obviously i think that s the case. it s not how you dress when you re just going shopping. so he clearly was planning on doing some damage. just looking at the crowd that s assembled outside, and i m not familiar with buffalo, but it looks like it s a largely
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Jefferson about an hour ago, i was speaking with some of the police officers here and they re hanging their heads low. simply put, they said this is unlike anything they ve seen in the city of buffalo. i ve lived here almost 11 years. this is unlike anything i ve ever seen here as a reporter. when you look at the broader scene, you see all the people on the other side of the police tape on jefferson and landon street. all of those people gathering, trying to wrap their heads around what happened here in their community. but not only trying to wrap their heads around what happened here, also trying to get in touch with some of the people who were inside. their loved ones. family members. why did this happen? the biggest question here. w who is this shooter? what would have led him to open fire inside a supermarket? more police officers arriving here on scene and as you can imagine, this presence is not
Going to stop anytime soon. just about ten or so minutes ago, i heard from the buffalo police spokesperson, mike degeorge, who speaks on behalf of the city of buffalo, but also the police department our thanks to our affiliate reporter. cnn has not independently confirmed those details at this time. there are local reports coming out of the buffalo area about casualties. cnn is at the moment working on confirming some of those details. we want to get that to you as quickly as possible but as accurately as possible. we re monitoring the situation and we ll bring you to a press conference from the police department as soon as it happens. we re monitoring the situation for that as well. one more quick break and we ll have more details in just a few moments.