BUFFALO : The accused gunman in the mass shooting in Buffalo had planned a prolonged massacre after attacking a
Tops supermarket on Saturday, according to the Buffalo police commissioner, who said that the attacker wanted “to continue his rampage”.
The commissioner, Joseph Gramaglia, told
CNN on Monday that the suspect had spoken “about possibly going to another store,” after Tops, potentially turning his fire on “another large superstore. ” “He was going to get in his car. . . and continue to drive down and continue doing the same thing,” he said.
Investigators are continuing to analyse the activities of the suspect,
Payton Gendron, 18, who they said travelled halfway across New Yorkto kill
Black people in east Buffalo. Indeed, he had picked the Tops store, the police said, in an area known for its large Black population, going so far as to visit the neighbourhood a day before the attack.