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A white teenager opened fire at a Buffalo, New York supermarket on Saturday, killing 10 people and wounding three others in what authorities have described as a “hate crime and racially motivated violent extremism”. Eleven of the 13 victims were Black and two were white. Authorities said the 18-year-old drove to Tops Friendly Market about 2.30pm “allegedly wearing tactical gear and armed with an assault weapon”. He shot four people outside the grocery, three of whom died, local prosecutors said. He then entered the supermarket, where a security guard, a retired police officer, tried to stop him. The guard was killed, and the shooter shot eight additional people inside the store, six of whom died, authorities said. The attacker was arraigned on a first-degree murder charge hours later. Vigils were held on Sunday across Buffalo for the victims. In striking Tops Friendly, the shooter – a self-confessed white supremacist – was not just hitting at a supermarket, but also a place where locals gathered as a community. The shooting comes amid a rise in racial violence in the US: hate-based crime has been getting worse, largely cultivated in the cauldron of the darkest reaches of the internet.
