Ugly Chat Logs Show Months of Racist Plotting by Buffalo Suspect
A white supremacist accused of murdering 10 people and injuring three more at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket previously mulled other locations, including schools, churches, and malls in multiple upstate and western New York cities like Rochester, his internet writings reveal.
Payton Gendron is accused of opening fire at a Tops Friendly supermarket on Saturday afternoon. A manifesto released online shortly before the shooting suggested that the shooter specifically targeted that supermarket because it was located in a neighborhood with a large Black population. The manifesto is currently under investigation by law enforcement.
But Gendron also kept detailed logs of his alleged plans on the messaging app Discord, dating back until at least November 2021. Those logs, reviewed by The Daily Beast, reveal an aspiring killer who was inspired by past racist massacres and hoped to recreate them against Black New Yorkers.