Ten Killed in Shooting in Buffalo Police Say Was Racially Motivated

Ten people were killed and three more wounded in a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., on Saturday, with the FBI saying it will investigate the shooting as a hate crime.

The suspect, an 18-year-old white male, arrived at a Tops Friendly Market store “heavily armed,” Buffalo Police commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told reporters at a press conference. Eleven of the victims of the shooting were black.

The suspect pleaded not-guilty to murder charges in court later on Saturday.

“It was straight-up, racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community, outside of the city of good neighbors as the mayor said, coming into our community and trying to inflict that evil upon us,” Erie County sheriff John Garcia said at the same press conference.

FBI special agent Stephen Belongia also said the bureau would open a hate-crimes investigation into the shooting.