Accused Buffalo Shooter Visited City in March

Law enforcement presses on with hate-crime probe; Biden to travel to Buffalo Tuesday

Family members of Buffalo shooting victim Ruth Whitfield on Monday called for changes to laws “that allow this kind of hate to be perpetrated.” Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old white male suspected of killing 10 people in an alleged hate crime at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket Saturday, was arraigned on murder charges. Photo: Matt Rourke/Associated Press

As authorities investigate the Buffalo, N.Y., mass shooting as a hate crime, they are tracing the suspect’s movements leading up to the attack, which include a trip to the city in March.

Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Monday the suspect, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, traveled in March nearly 200 miles from his home in Conklin, N.Y., to Buffalo, but declined to elaborate on any possible motive for the trip.

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