The racist attack on Buffalo with victims ten members African American community in the cityhas been preparing in detail for months, many US media outlets claim today after investigating the messages and posts of the alleged perpetrator, a 18-year-old advocate of white supremacy.
The police chief of this city, in northern New York, the Joseph Gramaliaannounced Monday night that the young man had made a “reconnaissance” visit to the community, located on Lake Erie, on the U.S.-Canada border. Peyton Jedron’s house is 300 miles to the south.
According to the Washington Post and CNN, which had access to about 600 pages of messages exchanged by Jetron on Discord and 4Chan, the 18-year-old went to Buffalo on March 8 and visited three times. exactly at 12.00, at 14.00 and at 16.00, the Tops supermarket, where he launched his attack on Saturday. That day he was almost confronted by “an armed, black security guard” of the department store who was worried about the presence of this young man in the area. In a message posted two days later, Peyton Jetron wrote that “it should to kill this guard Tops security “and” hopes that (the guard) will not kill him or injure him “.
A guard, a retired police officer, was shot dead at the entrance to the supermarket on Saturday.
Jetron has been writing since December that wants to kill blacks and that he targeted that supermarket in a Buffalo neighborhood in February because of the high percentage of African-Americans in the area, according to the Washington Post.
The newspaper studied the 180-page manifesto written by the young man who writes that he is “just a white man who seeks to protect and serve his community, his people, his culture and his race.” The pages of the manifesto mention, minute by minute, the attack, the weapons he would use, the transmission of the murders through the Twitch platform.
Peyton Jedron is currently on trial for “intentional homicide” and will stand trial on Thursday. Authorities accuse him of committing a “racist crime motivated by hatred” and that it constitutes “domestic terrorism”.
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