this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. y i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. we expect an update from buffalo police after that racist massacre in upstate new york. ten innocent people killed by a racist domestic terrorist who targeted individuals in a predominantly black area of town saturday. officials say it could have been worse. police believe the shooter planned to continue his rampage after leaving the store with his sick goal of killing as many black people as possible. he was wearing tactical gear, armed with a semiautomatic rifle. he had surveilled the area the day before. this shows the moment the suspect was arrested. the erie county sheriff called the attack a straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community. he lived at home with his parents more than three hours away. today, investigators are parsing through a 180-page screed written by the killer. it details how he had been radicalized and was fixate
active and on going investigation in buffalo. waiting to get new information that is supposedly should have new information about the gunman and possibly how long he was here in buffalo casing this area. officials say he was inside the store and possibly talked to employees. you can still see the crime scene tape here. you can see this is new video. the fbi is here hahn scene trying to canvas the area. they re taking pictures and marking several bullet holes that were left in the building where the gunman opened fire in what is called a racially motivated hate crime. out of the 13 people shot here in buffalo at the supermarket, 11 are black. it have aers believe the gunman s rampage was not going to end there. he was planning to continue shooting people in the neighborhood that he apparently chose because it has the largest black population in buffalo. they believe he mapped it out one day before the shooting. listen. the hatred towards blacks, jewish and immigrants was his
that felony hearing. the defendant will waive that felony hearing or the felony hearing will happen thursday and we ll go forward. so again, just kind of a i m trying to let everyone know in advance. once that felony hearing happens thursday, the grand jury investigation is going to begin and i will not be able to talk more about anything having to do with this investigation until there has been an indictment on this matter. again, for those of you out of town, my m.o. is after an indictment, there will be an arraignment on the indictment and i will do a press conference on the arraignment, on the indictment. but then once i do a briefing
thursday s felony hearing. one of two things is going to happen at that felony hearing. the defendant is going to waive the felony hearing or the felony hearing is going to happen on wednesday and we ll go forward. again, just kind of i m trying to let everyone know in advance, once that felony hearing happens on thursday, the quote/unquote grand jury investigation is going to begin, and i will not be able to talk more about anything having to do with this investigation until there has been an indictment on this matter. again, for those of you out of town, my m.o. is after an indictment, there will be an arraignment on the indictment. and i will do a press conference on the arraignment on the indictment. but then
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