Buffalo residents held vigils on Sunday after the deadly shooting at a supermarket by a gunman in a “racist” rampage resulted in 10 dead.
The suspected gunman, identified as Payton Gendron, was arraigned late Saturday on a single count of first-degree murder and held without bail, the Erie County district attorney's office said. He pleaded not guilty.
“The evidence that we have uncovered so far makes no mistake that this is an absolute racist hate crime,” Buffalo police commissioner, Joseph Gramaglia, said.
Mr Gramaglia told reporters the 18-year-old suspect did “reconnaissance” on the predominantly black area surrounding Tops Friendly Market and drove there from his home town of Conklin, more than 200 miles away.
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres sharply condemned the shooting deaths of 10 people at a grocery store in New York State, his spokesman said on Sunday.
“The Secretary General was appalled by the killing of 10 people in a vile act of racist violent extremism in Buffalo, New York, on 14 May,” UN deputy spokesman, Farhan Haq, said in a statement. “He extends his deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims and hopes justice will be served swiftly.”
Many people across the US have decried easy access to powerful guns and the latest eruption of racist violence.
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