May 15 (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, killing 10 people and injuring three others, before turning himself in to police.
Authorities said they considered the shooting a hate crime and an act of “racially motivated violent extremism”.
The suspect, an 18-year-old white male, was armed with an assault rifle and appears to have acted alone, police said.
He traveled to Buffalo from another county in New York state to attack a supermarket in a neighborhood mostly populated by African-Americans, authorities said.
Eleven of the 13 people shot were black, two others were white, senior sources said. (Report Steve Gorman, Pete Schroeder and Moira Wharburton; French version Camille Raynaud)