Buffalo, N.Y., Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia on Monday said that the alleged perpetrator of the mass shooting on Saturday planned to “shoot more Black people” after killing 10 people and injuring three more at a local grocery store.
“It appeared that his plans were to drive out of here and then continue driving down Jefferson Avenue looking to shoot more ‘Black people,’ as he put it, and possibly even go to another store location,” Gramaglia told ABC News.
Accused shooter Payton Gendron, who allegedly drove from a town 200 miles away to perpetrate the hate crime, had apparently been influenced by the racist “great replacement theory,” a baseless conspiracy theory that politicians are attempting to replace white people with nonwhites.