Police in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a> praised a man who broke into a school to shelter travelers stranded during last week’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-50-people-dead-during-extreme-winter-weather-across-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">winter storm</a> that left dozens dead. 
Jay Withey, of Cheektowaga, New York, broke into a local school during the storm in order to shelter 24 people who had been left stuck in their cars in the Buffalo suburb due to inclement weather. 
Withey, who left a note at the school apologizing for any damage caused by his actions, was praised by police, who called his actions heroic and credited him with saving lives. 
“We identified the amazing Jay with the help of his friends and family! Our Chief was able to speak to him and express our gratitude for his heroic actions,” the Cheektowaga Police said in a statement. 
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Withey, 27, was stranded alongside dozens of others along Delavan Avenue in Cheektowaga on December 23 when he broke into a nearby school and went from car to car inviting them to come inside for shelter as cars were blocked due to snow and ice. 
&#8220;I said I have to do something there&#8217;s other people stuck around here,&#8221; Withey <a href="https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/blizzard-of-22/cheektowaga-man-known-as-merry-christmas-jay-is-hailed-a-hero" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> WBEN radio. &#8220;I know there is. We can&#8217;t be the only ones stuck. So I told her I&#8217;m going to break into the school.&#8221;
Withey repeatedly went out looking for stranded travelers, saying it was “God’s will” that he broke into the school to save others. 
&#8220;Like I said, I walked til I cried,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I walked til I couldn&#8217;t walk anymore.&#8221;
Once inside the school, Withey and others were able to stay warm and find food to sustain themselves until it was safe to leave. Police praised Withey and the others for their actions in taking care of each other and not trashing the school&#8217;s facilities during their stay.
“We watched the video surveillance and witnessed people taking care of people. There was a freezer full of food but no one touched it. They only ate what was necessary to stay alive. They used the gym for the kids to play and pulled the smart boards out of the classrooms to watch the news for updates,” they said in a Facebook post aimed at identifying Withey. 
After Withey cleared the way out of the school with a snowblower and everyone left, he left a <a href="https://twitter.com/CPDNYInfo/status/1608517413229760513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1608517413229760513%7Ctwgr%5Ec449745adb8d2bfd80e89b3e16214300e725ed19%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2022%2F12%2Fnew-york-police-looking-good-citizen-christmas-jay-saved-multiple-lives-buffalo-storm%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">note</a> apologizing for any damage to the school. “I’m terribly sorry about breaking the school window and for breaking in the kitchen,” he wrote a note that was only signed with his first name.  “I had to do it to save everyone and get them shelter and food and a bathroom.”
School officials do not plan on filing any charges against Withey or any of the others who stayed in the school to escape frigid conditions.

A man saves victims by taking them in his vehicle from blizzard in New York

New York Police Praise Man Who Broke Into School To Save Stranded Winter Storm Travelers

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The death toll in Erie County, which contains Buffalo, New York, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/12/28/buffalo-winter-storm-deaths-reaches-34-why-death-toll-so-high/10961199002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has risen to 37</a> from the blizzard that struck the area late last week.
<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/12/29/buffalo-blizzard-deaths-victims-how-they-died/10964288002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, 17 people were found dead outside; nine died in homes lacking heat; four were found dead in a vehicle; four died of heart-related issues from shoveling or snow blowing and three people died when emergency medical services were delayed. 29 of the deaths occurred in the city of Buffalo. Local officials have been criticized for not implementing a travel ban earlier; Erie County issued a travel ban at roughly 9 a.m. Friday, but many people were already on their way to work.
“I think a travel ban should have been put in place a lot earlier,” Buffalo EMT Felicia Williams told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/12/27/buffalo-storm-blizzard-warnings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>.
On Thursday, Poloncarz acknowledged that listing a weather event as capable of “extreme impact” had only occurred twice during his time in his position.
Erie County Sheriff John Garcia said that his initial reaction to reports of a “bomb cyclone “ was “this is something that we are used to.” He acknowledged later, “I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
Meteorologist Reed Timmer stated simply, “Worst blizzard I have ever covered.”
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Extreme <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/blizzard?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#blizzard</a> stranding motorists Downtown Buffalo. Family here stranded 7 hours a block from shelter. <a href="https://twitter.com/bclemms?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bclemms</a> and I escorted to shelter. Seems like survival situations playing out a block or two away in whiteout. Worst blizzard I have ever covered <a href="https://t.co/ZvnBR9KeX7">pic.twitter.com/ZvnBR9KeX7</a>
&mdash; Reed Timmer, PhD (@ReedTimmerAccu) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReedTimmerAccu/status/1606478909427843074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Days before the storm hit, Mark Wysocki, professor of atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, had <a href="https://www.syracuse.com/weather/2022/12/another-winter-storm-likely-to-slam-upstate-ny-just-in-time-for-christmas-travel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a>, “It could be another one of these messes where we get this ice, freezing rain and snow. We could have a lot of issues with travel and downed power lines.”
One 63-year-old woman who needed to be connected to an electric oxygen machine lost heat and power in her home. According to <a href="https://buffalonews.com/news/local/buffalo-family-shelters-strangers-body-at-their-h%5B%e2%80%a6%5Dshe-dies-in/article_68dbbef2-863f-11ed-9d64-4b93014dd101.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Buffalo News</a>, she could not access emergency services because of the blizzard. Her son and his stepbrother traveled from Cheektowaga to her home in Lovejoy, New York, and attempted to take her to their car, but she was too tired.
“She’s like, ‘I can’t go no further.’ I’m begging her, ‘Mom, just stand up.’ She fell in my arms and never spoke another word,” her son recalled.  After her son pounded in nearby homes for help, one couple let him and his mother in, but the woman died anyway.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Reliability Corp. are conducting a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-29/us-battery-belt-will-be-a-new-kind-of-job-magnet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joint investigation</a> of the blackouts that blanketed millions of Americans.

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Death Toll In Buffalo Area Rises To 37 From Brutal Blizzard

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A 22-year-old woman was found dead on Christmas Eve after being trapped inside her car for nearly a day during the historic blizzard in Buffalo, New York, last weekend.
Anndel Taylor of Charlotte, North Carolina, was driving home from work on Friday afternoon when her car became stranded in the snowstorm for at least 18 hours, according to local media. The young woman had moved back to Buffalo, where she was born, earlier this year to care for her father after living in Charlotte with her family for the last two decades.
Wanda Brown Steele, Taylor&#8217;s mother, told WSOC she believes her daughter died from carbon monoxide poisoning rather than hypothermia. However, the official cause of death is still unknown.
&#8220;The car was running, and the snow was still coming, so it blocked the pipes, the exhaust pipe,&#8221; Wanda Brown Steele, Taylor&#8217;s mother, told <a href="https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/charlotte-woman-dies-after-getting-stuck-new-york-snowstorm/N5HF2CR76RA4HPABI53KRWMYOY/">WSOC</a>. &#8220;Then, after the car cut off, that&#8217;s when she iced up.&#8221;
Steele told the outlet her daughter called 911 emergency services for assistance and planned to sleep during the blizzard and then walk home. But with more than 40 inches of snow pummeling western New York over the Christmas weekend, authorities could not reach Taylor in what Gov. Kathy Hochul called &#8220;the blizzard of the century.&#8221;
The mother alerted relatives in Buffalo to search for Taylor.
&#8220;That&#8217;s when they busted open the window and seen that she was in there,&#8221; Steele said, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/27/anndel-taylor-22-dies-after-getting-stuck-in-buffalo-snowstorm/">The New York Post</a>.
Shawnequa Brown, Taylor&#8217;s sister, told WCOS that she &#8220;was telling my sister that she was scared.&#8221;
While Taylor waited inside her vehicle, she sent her family two videos showing the gravity of her situation, showing her car windshields covered in snow and then slightly rolling down her window to show the treacherous weather conditions.
Taylor became one of at least 28 people killed in what some reports indicated the storm was the worst blizzard to hit Buffalo in 45 years, coming close to a blizzard that hit the city in 1977 and killed nearly 30 people.
Although the winter storm that struck the city ended on Christmas morning, officials fear the death toll will rise.
Sylvia Taylor, Taylor&#8217;s grandmother, told WSOC-TV: &#8220;It&#8217;s so easy to ask yourself, &#8216;Why, God? Why?&#8221;
&#8220;But it&#8217;s not always meant for us to know the answer to that,&#8221; she said.
Family members told The Post that Taylor&#8217;s 23rd birthday was coming soon.
She &#8220;still got presents under the tree&#8221; for Christmas,&#8221; Shawnequa Brown said.
Brown called her sister &#8220;the golden child … The funniest, the realist, the hoodest little sister ever!&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m so so so sorry, I would do anything to have been there with you,&#8221; she wrote, according to The Post.

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Young Woman Trapped Inside Car During Buffalo Blizzard For 18 Hours Found Dead

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/buffalo-bills" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buffalo Bills</a> players just wanted to get home to their families on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christmas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christmas Day</a>, but a winter storm that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/looters-ransack-upstate-new-york-businesses-amid-deadly-blizzard-conditions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> western New York made that a little more difficult than usual. 
The Bills had a successful weekend in Chicago, beating the Bears handily after a second-half offensive surge on Christmas Eve. But when players got back to Buffalo on Christmas Day, they were met with another challenge and were forced to free their cars from the piles of snow that had accumulated from the massive storm that brought nearly four feet of snow to the city. 
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Buffalo Bills players dug out their cars when they returned home to New York on Christmas and found them buried in several feet of snow. <a href="https://t.co/lniI2VrhmJ">https://t.co/lniI2VrhmJ</a> <a href="https://t.co/wg2dwEUGZA">pic.twitter.com/wg2dwEUGZA</a>
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The team was supposed to fly back to Buffalo from Chicago on Christmas Eve following their Saturday game, but the winter storm <a href="https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/football/nfl/bills/2022/12/25/buffalo-bills-blizzard-weather-fly-rochester-christmas-day-snowstorm/69755617007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced</a> the Bills to fly into Rochester, New York, instead of Buffalo on Christmas afternoon.
“So the airport in Buffalo is closed,” Bills head coach Sean McDermott <a href="https://twitter.com/BuffaloBills/status/1606788032937558020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1606788032937558020%7Ctwgr%5E834da702161be3752fd9ff5b3890f68b52727998%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democratandchronicle.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Ffootball%2Fnfl%2Fbills%2F2022%2F12%2F25%2Fbuffalo-bills-blizzard-weather-fly-rochester-christmas-day-snowstorm%2F69755617007%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> his team in the locker room after their win. “We have to stay the night tonight, just hang in, hang in … we’re doing everything we can to get you guys home with your families. This is important. They’re a big part of this also.”
Some reports indicated that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/futuristic-scenes-as-buffalo-freezes-over-at-least-16-people-dead" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buffalo blizzard</a> was the worst to hit the city in 45 years, coming close to a blizzard that hit the city in 1977 and killed nearly 30 people. Although the winter storm that struck the city ended on Christmas morning, emergency situations persisted, and at least 28 people have been <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/12/26/buffalo-blizzard-deaths/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, dead and officials fear the death toll will rise. 
Because of the icy conditions, first responders had difficulty reaching people who needed medical attention or were stranded in their cars. Ice and snow pummeled the city, leaving it in scenes that resembled apocalyptic movies. Drone footage near Buffalo posted by WeatherNation showed abandoned cars in the middle of the road that had been almost completely covered in snow and lakefront houses plastered with ice. 
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NEW VIDEO: Snow drifts are reaching the height of SUVs in the Buffalo area as this historic blizzard gradually winds down. Some cars have been abandoned in the middle of roads during the height of the lake-effect snowstorm. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NYwx</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/snow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#snow</a> <a href="https://t.co/0v90aofgsX">pic.twitter.com/0v90aofgsX</a>
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Buffalo is expected to get even more snow through Tuesday with 6 to 12 inches of snow forecasted, <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSBUFFALO/status/1607327692524756994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1607327692524756994%7Ctwgr%5E8e294bb71f7c8a381d8eb7109ad5ca8c618eaf55%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fnation%2F2022%2F12%2F26%2Fwinter-storm-snow-death-toll-rises-buffalo%2F10953148002%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the National Weather Service. 
“This is the worst storm probably in our lifetime and maybe in the history of the city,” Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/12/26/buffalo-blizzard-deaths/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Monday. “And this is not the end yet.”
Hank Berrien contributed to this report.

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WATCH: Bills Players Have To Dig Out Their Cars After Returning To Buffalo Following Massive Winter Storm

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Looters ransacked and damaged upstate New York businesses over the weekend as deadly extreme winter weather and low temperatures froze local authorities from performing regular patrols.
New York State Police reportedly responded to claims across social media that some businesses had their windows smashed and merchandise damaged and stolen in the City of Buffalo as at least 27 have been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/26/weather/arctic-winter-storm-new-york-blizzard-monday/index.html">reported dead</a> in New York alone after a massive snowstorm.
Local media reported that such stores include all Wegmans and Tops locations in Erie County, which have been closed since Friday due to the &#8220;once in a generation&#8221; storm.
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown told reporters Monday the looters taking advantage of the unsupervised stores were &#8220;the lowest of the low.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror,&#8221; Mayor Brown said.
Brown added that the people who were out looting when others lost their lives in the harsh winter storm were &#8220;absolutely reprehensible.&#8221;
&#8220;And from some of the pictures that we&#8217;ve seen on social media of these looters, they&#8217;re not looting foods and medicines, they&#8217;re just looting items that they want,&#8221; the mayor said. &#8220;So these aren&#8217;t even people in distress — these are people who are taking advantage of a national disaster and the suffering of many in our community to take what they want.&#8221;
Two civilians spoke to a local <a href="https://www.wgrz.com/video/news/reports-of-looting-in-buffalo/71-871b4265-40ce-4b71-9bd0-271271e57cae">NBC affiliate</a> about the recent looting.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not about a need,&#8221; one source said. &#8220;It was a storm for one day — it&#8217;s not about a need.&#8221;
&#8220;Exactly,&#8221; the other source said. &#8220;They took TV sets.
New York State Police Superintendent Steven A. Nigrelli told local media authorities were dispatched to two confirmed reports of looting incidents.
&#8220;Those are still under investigation as we speak,&#8221; Nigrelli said. &#8220;Those are isolated incidents, and it&#8217;s not reflective of the great community of Western New York, and I&#8217;m sure that they&#8217;ll be limited to those two incidents — or at least that&#8217;s our hope.&#8221;
Local media reported City Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said authorities had made a &#8220;few&#8221; arrests related to looting over the weekend.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve been able to — throughout the storm — transition our patrol officers to get back [to] their patrol efforts while we have our search and rescue recovery teams that are going out and doing the very difficult work of recovering bodies,&#8221; Gramaglia said, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/26/looters-ransack-snowbound-buffalo-as-cops-are-stuck-elsewhere/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow">The New York Post</a>.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul released a statement regarding price gouging, yet another side effect of the once-in-a-century winter storm, as reported by local media.
&#8220;Price gouging is illegal, &#8220;Hochul <a href="https://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/buffalo/buffalo-mayor-looters-during-blizzard-are-lowest-of-the-low/">said</a>. &#8220;We have the attorney general&#8217;s office and our state is prepared to investigate any complaints of price gouging. Those who engage in this disgusting practice at a time when people in our community are hurting, when they&#8217;re trying so hard to get basic necessities, there&#8217;s a scarcity because stores have been closed since Friday, then shame on them. And they&#8217;re going to meet the law in a way they probably didn&#8217;t encounter. We&#8217;re going to be going after them.&#8221;
&#8220;The Department of Financial Services is engaging the insurance industry,&#8221; Hochul added, &#8220;making sure we have claims adjusters on the ground to help people who&#8217;ve had damage. Whether it&#8217;s the weight of snow on their roofs, whether it&#8217;s water damage &#8230; we want to make sure people know we&#8217;ll get help to them as soon as possible.&#8221;
New York officials implemented travel bans in Buffalo and surrounding areas, urging drivers to stay off the roads for emergency services to have a clear and passable route.
Hochul further noted that anyone whole violates the law &#8220;will be ticketed,&#8221; while members of the National Guard will be stopping drivers in areas where bans are in place.

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Looters Ransack Upstate New York Businesses Amid Deadly Blizzard Conditions

This may not be the time to insist on global warming to the people of Buffalo, New York, where the freezing temperatures over the weekend have left houses covered in ice, and at least 16 people reportedly died from the frozen weather.
Some <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/deadly-blizzard-deemed-worst-45-years-paralyzes-greater-buffalo-ny-2022-12-26/?taid=63a9a0ad55e0a20001a852f5&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter">reports</a> stated that the blizzard that hit Buffalo was the worst to hit the city in 45 years; in 1977, a blizzard struck the city that killed nearly 30 people. Although the blizzard that struck the city ended on Christmas morning, emergency situations persisted. Sixteen people were reported dead with expectations that the number would increase.
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16 dead in severe winter storm that caused whiteout in Buffalo <a href="https://t.co/WFUNWCunNu">https://t.co/WFUNWCunNu</a> <a href="https://t.co/di6s5mfltE">pic.twitter.com/di6s5mfltE</a>
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“I&#8217;m not asking. I&#8217;m not pleading. I&#8217;m telling you: Get off the roads right now in the City of Buffalo,” Buffalo mayor Byron Brown <a href="https://buffalonews.com/news/local/17-dead-desperation-grows-on-buffalo-blizzard-day-3-not-the-christmas-that-we-wanted/article_c6420664-849b-11ed-9e23-c3028c631897.html#tracking-source=home-top-story">told</a> WBEN radio. “You are adding to the problem if you are driving in Buffalo. People are dying in cars. That&#8217;s the reality of it.”
Because of the frozen roads, ambulances had a difficult time reaching some people suffering from medical emergencies. Over 20,000 people reportedly lost power during the storm.
More than 29,000 households still had no power, 20,000 of them in Buffalo alone. Some power substations were frozen over; one even had an 18-foot snow drift blocking it.
Harrowing scenes of frozen buildings could be seen on social media.
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: Wild scene from Buffalo as homes are fully covered in ice
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ICE ENCAPSULATION INSANITY at the Buffalo Waterfront. Need crampons bad to dominate this slippery terrain. Looks like scenes from the movie Day After Tomorrow <a href="https://t.co/EAfuoBRInl">pic.twitter.com/EAfuoBRInl</a>
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The Buffalo Police Department&#8217;s Ferry-Fillmore district station welcomed people to warm themselves, as did Cleveland Hill High School, where roughly 200 people came.
“It is heartbreaking that people are driving,” Brown said, adding that some people were “out sightseeing.”
“This is a major disaster. It is not the Christmas that we wanted,” Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said. He also said that that with conventional snow-removal equipment was unable to clear some snow drifts, which rose as high as eight feet.
The Buffalo Police Department <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BuffaloPoliceDepartment">issued a statement</a> over the weekend reading:
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As another reminder, the City of Buffalo remains under a citywide travel ban until further notice. ONLY essential personnel should be on the roadways at this time. If you know someone who is stranded in their vehicle, immediately call 911 and report their location, do not attempt to get to them. Those driving during the travel ban are only endangering the lives of the first responders answering legitimate 911 emergency calls and DPW crews clearing roadways.
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Major Winter Storm Brings Snow, Freezing Temperatures To Big Swath Of U.S.

Futuristic Scenes As Buffalo Freezes Over, At Least 16 People Dead

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The city of Buffalo, New York, filed a lawsuit against several gun manufacturers on Tuesday following a mass shooting earlier this year that left 10 people dead.
Mayor Byron Brown, a Democrat-turned-independent, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/city-buffalo-files-kind-lawsuit-gun-industry/story?id=95615548" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the suit was filed in the state Supreme Court and the defendants include Smith &amp; Wesson, Bushmaster, Colts, Glock, Beretta, and Remington. The lawsuit was filed in the state Supreme Court.
A<a href="https://www.buffalony.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1185"> news release</a> pointed to the racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store in May. Last month, the male suspect <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/nyregion/buffalo-shooting-guilty-plea.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded</a> guilty to charges brought against him, which <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/us/buffalo-tops-grocery-shooting-payton-gendron-plea/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> first-degree murder, attempted murder, a domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate, and weapons possession.
&#8220;Members of our community have suffered too much for too long from gun violence,&#8221; Brown said at a press conference on Tuesday. &#8220;We must do everything we can to decrease gun violence. Enabling the possession of illegal guns destroys lives and deeply affects our neighborhood, especially in black and brown communities.”
The mayor described the lawsuit as “another proactive strategy that we are utilizing in Buffalo to keep our community safe.” 
“We have state public nuisance laws that we are empowered to enforce, and I intend on doing all that I can as Mayor to protect people and prevent the loss of lives resulting from gun violence,” Brown said. “The conduct of certain gun manufacturers has unreasonably interfered with the public’s right to use open space free from fear.”
The <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23487757-buffalo-v-gun-manufacturers?responsive=1&amp;title=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> alleges that the defendants’ “actions have created, maintained, or contributed to a condition in the City of Buffalo that endangers the safety and health of the public.” It also added that the gun industry “manufactured or distributed thousands of firearms recovered in crimes committed in the City of Buffalo and New York State.” 
It seeks damages and for the defendants “to endow an abatement fund with sufficient capital to eliminate the public nuisance they are responsible for creating, exacerbating, and/or perpetuating.”
One of the defendants, Bushmaster, responded in a statement to CNN.
“We have not had a chance to review the allegations in full at this time, but upon first blush, the verified allegations against Bushmaster Firearms Industries, Inc. are false,” Bushmaster said. “Our counsel is currently reviewing the complaint and evaluating a path forward to address both this lawsuit and the potentially libelous claims made against Bushmaster Firearms Industries, Inc.”

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City Of Buffalo Files Lawsuit Against Several Gun Manufacturers Following Mass Shooting

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The shooter who allegedly <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murdered</a> 10 people in May at a supermarket in <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/buffalo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buffalo</a>, <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a>, pleaded guilty on Monday morning.
The 19-year-old man, whom The Daily Wire will not name in accordance with a policy of depriving mass shooters of undeserved notoriety, pleaded guilty to all charges in the grand jury indictment, including murder, murder as a hate crime, and hate-motivated domestic terrorism, according to a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-crime-shootings-race-and-ethnicity-4a4dcf6e12c598d1f0a372227760b93f?taid=6384d7b553703a000196316e&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Associated Press.
Law enforcement officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect-had-been-flagged-as-troubled-a-year-ago-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the suspect, who allegedly drove three-and-a-half hours from Broome County, New York, to the Tops Friendly Market because it is frequented by African-Americans, was on authorities’ radar after allegedly threatening fellow high school students last year. “A school official reported that this very troubled young man had made statements indicating that he wanted to do a shooting, either at a graduation ceremony, or sometime after,” a government official familiar with the case <a href="https://buffalonews.com/news/local/mass-shooter-accused-of-pure-evil-killing-of-10-in-buffalo-hate-crime-named-in/article_f9ef9bac-d3d9-11ec-9eaf-cbcafe308f9c.html#tracking-source=home-top-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Buffalo News.
The shooter allegedly arrived at the grocery store on May 14 wearing tactical gear and carrying a rifle, shooting four people outside before entering the building. He allegedly shot eight more people while inside and killed security guard and former Buffalo police officer Aaron Salter, who attempted to stop him. The gunman allegedly live-streamed the murder spree on Twitch using a camera strapped to his helmet.
The charge of hate-motivated domestic terrorism requires an automatic sentence of life without parole. The shooter reportedly painted a number of <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/buffalo-shooters-weapons-covered-white-supremacist-messaging" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racist symbols</a> and phrases onto the weapons he carried during the attack, including the phrase “White Lives Matter,” the Celtic Cross symbol used by neo-Nazis, and references to “black-on-white” crimes.
&#8220;The past 24 hours have been traumatizing for New Yorkers, and my administration will spare no effort to ensure the victims of this act of terrorism by a white supremacist are receiving all the resources and support they need,&#8221; Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) said in a <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-state-resources-available-buffalo-community-response-horrific" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> after the shooting. &#8220;The entire world is watching how we will come together as New Yorkers to overcome this unthinkable tragedy.”
Hochul has since <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-actions-prevent-hate-crimes-and-protect-new-yorkers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a number of measures “taking bold action to reclaim our city and state from the haters, bigots and white supremacists,” including the promotion of $50 million in grants for projects to combat hate crimes.
The shooter posted a manifesto online detailing his intentions to livestream an attack against African-Americans, according to an earlier <a href="https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-19514b0c6524bd428f4167ad9b490a12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Associated Press. He had allegedly scouted the store two months before the attack, practiced shooting from his car, posted hand-drawn maps of the grocery store, and counted the number of African-Americans present at certain locations in the building.
Ahead of the attack, the shooter allegedly communicated with at least six individuals in a chatroom. One <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/retired-federal-agent-in-texas-may-have-known-in-advance-of-buffalo-mass-shooting-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Buffalo Times indicated that a retired federal agent was present in the chatroom and may have known about the shooting half an hour in advance. The outlet was unable to determine if the retired agent accepted the invitation to the chat in which the shooter wrote about his plan, but federal law enforcement verified that no one who regularly visited the chatroom called emergency services to warn of the pending massacre.

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Buffalo and parts of Western New York are bracing for up to four feet of snow this week.
New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency Wednesday afternoon, announcing that the New York State Thruway would be closed to commercial traffic as of Thursday afternoon from Rochester to the Pennsylvania state line.
&#8220;Parts of Western New York, the Finger Lakes, Central New York and the North Country are about to get their first snowstorm of the season, which means we need everyone in these impacted regions to be ready for dangerous travel conditions,&#8221; Hochul said in a <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-declare-state-emergency-ahead-intense-lake-effect-snow-forecast-portions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
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Ahead of the winter storm forecast upstate, I am declaring a State of Emergency effective tomorrow morning.
We are deploying emergency assets &amp; are in constant contact with local officials.
New Yorkers: Remain vigilant &amp; avoid unnecessary travel during hazardous conditions.
&mdash; Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovKathyHochul/status/1592998215904677888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;My team and I are deploying emergency response assets ahead of the storm, remain in constant contact with local officials, and are laser focused on the forecast. New Yorkers should remain vigilant ahead of the storm and avoid any unnecessary travel during these hazardous conditions,&#8221; she added.
The first phase of the lake effect snowstorm started Wednesday evening. Parts of Erie County were forecast to see an inch of snow per hour, with potential &#8220;thundersnow,&#8221; according to the National Weather Service, who warned the storm could be &#8220;crippling.&#8221;
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The first phase of our lake effect snowstorm is underway this evening with heavy lake effect snow east of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Travel will be difficult tonight from the distant southern suburbs of Buffalo into the western Southern Tier, and in portions of Oswego County. <a href="https://t.co/fF3sasmoXU">pic.twitter.com/fF3sasmoXU</a>
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Erie County&#8217;s Department of Public Works reported Thursday morning that crews were already at work clearing the roads.
&#8220;Please use caution while driving, as many districts are reporting downed tree limbs from wet, heavy snow,&#8221; the county&#8217;s account <a href="https://twitter.com/ErieCountyDPW/status/1593238772409585664" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Twitter.
Officials issued warnings regarding the extreme weather conditions, with offices and schools closing across the area.
&#8220;Despite the unseasonably warm weather of late, winter is here across upstate New York. Do not underestimate this storm. We expect snow to be intense at times creating dangerous conditions and significant accumulation to occur over the event. Now is the time to get prepared and have a plan,&#8221; New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Commissioner Jackie Bray said in the governor&#8217;s statement regarding the emergency declaration.
&#8220;New Yorkers in the affected area who must travel later this week, should take it slow and build in extra time for your commute. And we should all check on our neighbors, particularly vulnerable neighbors, to help them prepare for winter weather in the forecast,&#8221; he added.
Heavy snow is expected throughout the Buffalo and Watertown areas through Sunday, according to the latest reports.
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Heavy snow in Hamburg as lake effect event starts! <a href="https://twitter.com/accuweather?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@accuweather</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WeatherNation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WeatherNation</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/wunderground?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wunderground</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NWS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NWS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNweather?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNNweather</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/weatherchannel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@weatherchannel</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/breakingweather?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@breakingweather</a> <a href="https://t.co/1ZCdsaOpg7">pic.twitter.com/1ZCdsaOpg7</a>
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Some have noted that the epic snow accumulation forecast comes ahead of the NFL&#8217;s Buffalo Bills game against the Cleveland Browns scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday.
With up to four feet of snow expected before kickoff, the two teams could relive the memories of their 2007 &#8220;Snow Bowl.&#8221; Yardage markers were nearly unreadable in the blizzard-like conditions that ended with the Browns <a href="https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/news/top-75-moments-no-70-phil-dawson-browns-survive-2007-snow-game-vs-bills" target="_blank" rel="noopener">winning</a> 8-0 and no touchdowns were scored. Only two field goals and one safety were recorded.
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Week 15 2007<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BillsMafia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BillsMafia</a> @ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Browns?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Browns</a> The Cleveland Snow Bowl!!! Who’s going to Buffalo Sunday for the rematch!?!?! <a href="https://t.co/lZwRtaweXo">pic.twitter.com/lZwRtaweXo</a>
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‘Crippling’: Buffalo Expects Up To 4 Feet Of Snow, State Of Emergency Declared

Buffalo Expects Up To 4 Feet Of Snow, State Of Emergency Declared

A Buffalo 911 dispatcher accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buffalo-911-dispatcher-accused-of-hanging-up-on-worker-hiding-during-mass-shooting-faces-firing">shouting at and hanging up on a supermarket worker</a> who was hiding during <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect-had-been-flagged-as-troubled-a-year-ago-report">last month’s racially motivated mass shooting</a> has been fired, according to a report.
The unnamed dispatcher was sacked on Thursday, the Erie County Department of Personnel <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/us/buffalo-dispatcher-fired-after-mishandling-911-call/index.html">told CNN</a>. The 911 dispatcher had been on paid administrative leave since May 16 and was fired after a May 30 hearing, according to County Executive Mark Poloncarz.
<div data-paragraph-id="paragraph_59FD788D-A139-8C9A-BB6F-2A9A60ABAB4C" data-act-id="paragraph_1">“She was yelling at me, saying, ‘Why are you whispering? You don’t have to whisper,&#8217;” the employee, Latisha Rogers, an assistant office manager at the market, told <a href="https://buffalonews.com/news/local/tops-worker-says-911-dispatcher-hung-up-on-her-during-shooting-the-dispatcher-is-now/article_81722c50-d6b6-11ec-9b8e-978e1bbde2e4.html">The Buffalo News</a> last month. “And I was telling her, ‘Ma’am, he’s still in the store. He’s shooting. I’m scared for my life. I don’t want him to hear me. Can you please send help?’ She got mad at me, hung up in my face.”</div>
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<div data-paragraph-id="paragraph_59FD788D-A139-8C9A-BB6F-2A9A60ABAB4C" data-act-id="paragraph_1">The call was placed as an 18-year old suspect was spraying the Tops Friendly Market with gunfire in a horrific attack that left 10 dead and three wounded.</div>
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<div data-paragraph-id="paragraph_59FD788D-A139-8C9A-BB6F-2A9A60ABAB4C" data-act-id="paragraph_1">Rogers told the paper she had to phone her boyfriend and have him call 911 to report the shooting.  It is not yet clear who hung up first.</div>
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“I felt that lady left me to die yesterday,” Rogers said.
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A 911 dispatcher has been fired after hanging up on a call coming from inside the store in Buffalo where prosecutors say a white gunman killed 10 Black people in a hate-based domestic terror attack<a href="https://t.co/QbjCf5H4uY">https://t.co/QbjCf5H4uY</a>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_24EFE839-6C72-7898-4D6B-2A9A60B335B4" data-act-id="paragraph_10">Buffalo police went through all 911 calls from the shooting, according to Poloncarz.</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_24EFE839-6C72-7898-4D6B-2A9A60B335B4" data-act-id="paragraph_10">&#8220;They identified this one call, the issue associated with it, it was completely unacceptable,&#8221; he told CNN.</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_B11BF1D9-4071-683F-0F21-2A9A60B563B2" data-act-id="paragraph_12">&#8220;We teach our 911 call takers that if someone is whispering, it probably means they are in trouble,&#8221; Poloncarz said, noting that dispatchers must be aware that callers may be in &#8220;an area of concern, not just with regards to active shooters but potentially with regards to domestic violence that someone may be calling.&#8221;</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_B11BF1D9-4071-683F-0F21-2A9A60B563B2" data-act-id="paragraph_12">Authorities said the shooter arrived at the market around 2:30 p.m. ET wearing tactical gear and armed with a rifle. He shot four people outside the grocery, three fatally, before entering. Once inside, the shooter was confronted by security guard and former Buffalo police officer Aaron Salter, 55, who was shot dead trying to stop the gunman. The shooter shot eight more people inside the store, six of whom died, authorities said. Police responded and took the suspect into custody.</div>
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The Daily Wire is not naming the shooter in keeping with a policy of depriving mass shooters of undeserved notoriety.
He allegedly live-streamed the murder spree on Twitch after driving some three-and-a-half hours from Broome County, New York, to the market because it is frequented by African Americans.
Authorities suspect the shooting was racially motivated, in part because the suspect is white and 11 of his 13 victims are black. The barrel of the suspect’s gun bore “the N-word” spelled out in white paint, along with the numeral 14, according to The Buffalo News. A government official told the outlet the number refers to a 14-word statement that is popular with white supremacists.
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Buffalo 911 Dispatcher Who Hung Up On Woman Hiding From Shooter Is Fired

Authorities are investigating whether or not a retired federal agent had advanced warning that a white supremacist was planning on murdering black people at a supermarket in New York earlier this month.
The news comes after the attacker, who The Daily Wire is not naming due to company policy about not giving notoriety to those responsible for mass casualty events, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shooter-kills-10-wounds-three-in-buffalo-grocery-store-authorities-investigating-as-racially-motivated-attack">killed</a> 10 black people in the attack at a Tops Friendly Markets store in Buffalo.
The retired agent is believed to be one of six people who had regular contact with the attacker in an extremist online chat room.
&#8220;The two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation stated these individuals were invited by [the assailant] to read about his mass shooting plans and the target location about 30 minutes before [the assailant] killed 10 people at Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue on May 14,&#8221; The Buffalo News <a href="https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/authorities-investigating-if-retired-federal-agent-knew-of-buffalo-mass-shooting-plans-in-advance/article_bd408f18-dd39-11ec-be53-df8fdd095d6f.html">reported</a>. &#8220;Agents from the FBI are in the process of tracking down and interviewing the six people, including the retired agent, and attempting to determine if any of them should be charged as accomplices.&#8221;
It is not known whether the six individuals received the invitation and read it before the tragedy occurred.
“These were like-minded people who used this chat group to talk about their shared interests in racial hatred, replacement theory and hatred of anyone who is Jewish, a person of color or not of European ancestry,” said a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. “What is especially upsetting is that these six people received advanced notice of the Buffalo shooting, about 30 minutes before it happened.
“The FBI has verified that none of these people called law enforcement to warn them about the shooting,&#8221; the official added. &#8220;The FBI database shows no advance tips from anyone that this shooting was about to happen.”
The news comes after another mass casualty event happened this last week in Texas where an 18-year-old Latino killed 19 students at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
The assailant in Texas was killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent who had just sat down for a haircut when his wife, who was a teacher at Robb Elementary School, texted him and told him what was happening and asked him for help.
“There’s an active shooter,” she said. “Help. I love you.”
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/26/us/texas-elementary-school-shooting?smid=url-share#border-patrol-agent-uvalde-response">reported</a> that the Border Patrol agent&#8217;s barber gave him a shotgun and that the agent then ran out of the barbershop and sped to the school.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris">Vice President Kamala Harris</a> attended a Buffalo funeral Saturday for one of 10 people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect-had-been-flagged-as-troubled-a-year-ago-report">killed by a white supremacist</a> earlier this month and declared, “America is experiencing an epidemic of hate.”
The vice president and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff attended the memorial service for Ruth Whitfield Saturday afternoon at Mt. Olive Baptist Church along with the Rev. Al Sharpton. Whitfield, 86, was killed in the massacre at Tops Friendly Market on May 14.
“I cannot even begin to express our collective pain as a nation for what you are feeling in such an extreme way, to not only lose someone that you love, but through an act of extreme violence and hate,” said Harris, who spoke at the urging of Sharpton. “And I do believe that our nation right now is experiencing an epidemic of hate.”
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Vice Pres. Kamala Harris at the funeral of Buffalo shooting victim: &quot;This is a moment that requires all good people&#8230;to stand up and say we will not stand for this. Enough is enough. We will come together based on what we all know we have in common.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/q0nauBhuB3">https://t.co/q0nauBhuB3</a> <a href="https://t.co/7Jdv12w6v0">pic.twitter.com/7Jdv12w6v0</a>
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Whitfield was on her way home from visiting her husband in a nursing home when she stopped to buy groceries, her son, Garnell Whitfield, <a class=" uOtk efBMc LIsPj wIScF " tabindex="0" href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/shoppers-regulars-retired-police-officer-victims-buffalo-shooting/story?id=84731033" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told ABC News</a>.
Whitfield is survived <a tabindex="0" href="https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/buffalonews/name/ruth-whitfield-obituary?id=34899200" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-t="{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}">by her husband of 68 years</a>, Garnell W. Whitfield Sr., her children, and numerous grandchildren. Her funeral followed services for other victims of the mass shooting that were held earlier in the week.
Harris and Emhoff met with other families of the mass shooting victims Saturday, as well as with Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown.
The 18-year-old shooter, who The Daily Wire is not naming in keeping with a policy of depriving mass shooters of undeserved notoriety, allegedly live-streamed the murder spree on Twitch. Authorities said that the suspect, who allegedly drove some three-and-a-half hours from Broome County, New York, to the market because it is frequented by African Americans, recorded the horrific spree with a camera mounted to his tactical helmet.
Authorities suspect the shooting was racially motivated, in part because the suspect is white and 11 of his 13 victims are black. The barrel of the suspect’s gun bore “the N-word” spelled out in white paint, along with the numeral 14, according to The Buffalo News. A government official told the outlet the number refers to a 14-word statement that is popular with white supremacists. The suspect also posted a 180-page document that reads like a cross between a diary and a manifesto about a half-hour before the attack. In addition to support for white supremacy, the suspect&#8217;s document detailed his militant environmentalism and dislike of Fox News.
The mass shooting was followed by another horrific massacre May 24 inside a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/uvalde">Uvalde, Texas</a>, school by an 18-year-old loner. Two teachers and 19 children were killed in that attack.

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