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New York, 15 May (EFE) .- The flags flying on public buildings in New York will be flown at half-mast this Monday in honor of the ten killed and three injured in the massacre that took place in New York on Saturday York took place New York City Buffalo.
“The violence we are witnessing at the hands of this white supremacist is disgusting, unacceptable, and must stop here,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a brief statement on Sunday, adding that the banners are up to the death will remain at half mast are buried.
The shooting, perpetrated by an 18-year-old white man named Payton S. Gendron, is being investigated as a racist and terrorist attack after a manifesto was found in which he allegedly claimed he wanted to kill “all black people”. ” ” and had therefore decided to carry out the massacre in an area inhabited mainly by citizens of the African American community.
Of the 13 casualties, including wounded and dead, 11 were black.
“An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. We must confront white supremacy,” Hochul added.
Gendron, who turned himself in after the shooting, which he broadcast live via a camera attached to his military helmet, is scheduled to appear before a judge next Tuesday.
According to Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia, Gendron made a “general threat” last June when he was in high school, prompting his teachers to report him to the police.
Gramaglia, who didn’t go into detail, added it was not “a specific threat directed against a specific place or person”.
The inspector limited himself to pointing out that the police were investigating the incident, interviewed him and transferred him to a psychiatric hospital for examination.
According to an agent close to the investigation, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, the defendant wrote that he intended to carry out a mass shooting and was released from the mental hospital a day and a half after his admission. EFE
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