Buffalo, New York massacre suspect mapped plans on Discord app for months


A memorial is seen for victims near the scene of a shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, US on May 16, 2022. — Reuters

The accused gunman behind 10 deaths and three injuries in Buffalo, New York, over the weekend had spoken explicitly about his plans to commit a terrorist act on the popular chat app Discord since at least last December, according to logs of his posts reviewed by Bloomberg.

The record of his conversations indicate that the alleged shooter, identified by authorities as Payton S. Gendron, 18, had typed out plans to commit a rampage fuelled by his White supremacist beliefs for months over a private Discord server.

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