You don’t pick what ethnicity you’re born to,” Carlson said. The idea that those killed at the Tops Friendly Market lost their lives because of the shooter's racism is “sick,” said Steve Carlson, 29, who is Black and grew up knowing Katherine Massey, one of the victims. The attack was intended to intimidate all non-white, non-Christian people and get them to leave the country, it said. All others, the document said, were “replacers” who should be eliminated by force or terror. The document also outlines a racist ideology rooted in a belief that the U.S. Ten people died.Ī 180-page document, which law enforcement were investigating to see if it was indeed written by the gunman, gives plans for the attack and makes references to other racist shootings and to Roof. He shot 11 Black people and two white people at the grocery store, authorities said. Law enforcement officials said suspected gunman Payton Gendron, 18, drove 200 miles from his hometown of Conklin, New York, to Buffalo after searching out and specifically targeting a predominantly Black neighborhood. ‘Hero' Guard, Church Deacon Among Buffalo Supermarket Shooting Victims
