BUFFALO, N.Y. - Ten people were shot and killed Saturday after an 18-year-old White gunman entered a Buffalo supermarket and opened fire, authorities said.
Authorities said the gunman shot, in total, 11 Black people and two White people Saturday in a rampage motivated by racial hatred that he broadcast live.
The shooter, identified as Payton Gendron, had previously threatened a shooting at his high school last June, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.Among the dead was security guard Aaron Salter — a retired Buffalo police officer — who fired multiple shots at Gendron.
A bullet hit the gunman’s armor, but had no effect. Gendron then killed Salter, before hunting more victims.RELATED: Feds interview deadly supermarket shooting suspect's parentsAlso killed was Ruth Whitfield, 86, the mother of retired Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield.Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown told churchgoers that he saw the former fire official at the shooting scene Saturday, looking for his mother."My mother had just gone to see my father, as she does every day, in the nursing home and stopped at the Tops to buy just a few groceries.