Buffalo shooter wrote in high school that he wanted to cause a massacre

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The 18-year-old who yesterday killed ten people and wounded three others, mostly black, in a supermarket in the New York city of

wrote when he was in high school that he wanted to commit a mass shooting, according to The Wall Street newspaper Journal (WSJ).

The newspaper, which cites an agent with knowledge of the investigation, assures that the teachers informed the Police.

Buffalo Police Commissioner

acknowledged during a press conference held this Sunday that in June of last year the attacker, identified as

, made a "widespread threat, but not a specific threat directed at a place or a specific person."

Gramaglia, who did not offer more details about that threat, limited himself to pointing out that the Police investigated what happened, held an interview with him and transferred him to a

to be evaluated.

According to the WSJ, a day and a half later he was released.

"They did their job at the highest level that could be done at that time," said Gramaglia, who did not accept any further questions.

This Saturday, Gendron moved by car from

, a town 320 kilometers southeast of Buffalo, and parked it in the parking lot of the

around 2:30 p.m. local time (6:30 p.m. GMT).

He then left the vehicle armed, wearing a bulletproof vest, a helmet and a camera with which he broadcast the massacre live through the

platform , belonging to

, before turning himself in to the police.

The authorities are investigating what happened as a

based, among other things, on a manifesto that the young man apparently left written.

Baptist Bishop

assured during a mass in honor of the victims that Gendron, who is white, wrote in the text that he wanted to kill all blacks.

For her part, Governor

assured that the attacker also wrote that he had chosen to kill in that neighborhood, because it was majority black.

"This was not a random act of violence. We've seen enough of this. We see what happens when there are

and people get angry or are in the middle of a gang battle and there are innocent victims," ​​Hochul said today. .

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