Supermarket shooter sought Black neighborhood, official says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Federal agents interviewed Gendron's parents and served multiple search warrants, the law enforcement official told the AP.
46% : The white 18-year-old who shot and killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket had researched the local demographics while looking for places with a high concentration of Black residents, arriving there at least a day in advance to conduct reconnaissance, law enforcement officials said Sunday.
44% : A preliminary investigation found Gendron had repeatedly visited sites espousing white supremacist ideologies and race-based conspiracy theories and extensively researched the 2019 mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the man who killed dozens at a summer camp in Norway in 2011, the law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AP.
42% : Meanwhile, federal authorities were still working to confirm the authenticity of a racist 180-page manifesto that detailed the plot and identified Gendron by name as the gunman, the law enforcement official told the AP.
39% : The law enforcement official was not authorized to speak publicly on the investigation and did so on the condition of anonymity.

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