The racist attack in Buffalo, which killed ten members of the city's African-American community, was prepared in great detail for months, several US media outlets now claim after investigating the messages and posts of the alleged perpetrator, an 18-year-old white supremacist.
The police chief of this upstate New York city, Joseph Gramalia, announced Monday night that the youth had made a "reconnaissance" visit to the community, located on Lake Erie on the U.S.-Canada border. Peyton Jedron's home is 300 kilometers south.
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According to the Washington Post and the CNN television network, which had access to about 600 pages of messages that were exchanged by Jendron on the Discord and 4Chan platforms, the 18-year-old went to Buffalo on March 8 and visited three times, on the 12th exactly.00, 14.00 and 16.00, the Tops supermarket, where he launched his attack on Saturday. On that day he was almost confronted by "an armed, black security guard" of the store who was alarmed by the presence of this young man in the premises. In a message posted two days later, Peyton Jedron wrote that he "will have to kill this Tops security guard" and "hopes that (the guard) will not kill or injure him."
A security guard, a retired police officer, was shot and killed at the supermarket entrance on Saturday.
Jedron had been writing since December that he wanted to kill black people and that he targeted this supermarket, in a Buffalo neighborhood, in February because of the high percentage of African-American residents in the area, according to the Washington Post.
The newspaper studied the 180-page manifesto written by the young man who writes that he is "simply a white man seeking to protect and serve his community, his people, his culture and his race." The pages of the manifesto detail, minute by minute, the attack, the weapons he would use, the broadcast of the killings via the Twitch platform.
Peyton Jedron is currently being prosecuted for "manslaughter with intent" and will be arraigned before a judge on Thursday. Authorities accuse him of committing a "racist hate crime" and that the act constitutes "domestic terrorism."
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