announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from buffalo, new york. good evening from buffalo. a still proud but deeply wounded community asking tonight, why us. why a teenager traveled hundreds of miles to this city, to this block, to this grocery store to allegedly seek out black people to kill today we learn the gun attack that killed ten and injured three may not have gone entirely as planned police believe the shooter, pumped up on false and racist conspiracy theories, intended to head down the street and shoot more people. thankfully he was stopped and arrested it came on the same weekend as a mass shooting at a southern california church, an attack on taiwanese church members being investigated tonight as a hate crime that was politically motivated. we ll have more on that in a few moments. let s begin here with the pain, remembrances, and fear in buffalo tonight, buffalo still struggling to come to terms with how someone could turn a s
but the full scope of the tragedy can only be conveyed in stories, names, faces of people taken too soon. the deadliest shooting in buffalo, new york. police say a gunman driven by hate toward the black community killed ten people, injured three others at a supermarket there. among those that died in the shooting, an 86-year-old mother of a retired buffalo fire commissioner as well as a former buffalo police officer who died exchanging gunfire with the shooter. this morning, police say the 18-year-old suspect was planning to continue his carnage if not stopped. president biden and the first lady head to buffalo tomorrow to meet with families of the victims. begin in buffalo. victor blackwell is there for us. victor, what are you learning about the victims? reporter: ten people killed. all the stories tragic. imagine this. andres mcneal was here purchasing cupcakes. he lost his father on the day they were celebrating his birthday. you mentioned the mother of the former fire
wounding three others. bill: the suspect faced a judge saturday night. the new york post cover. eyes of a killer. dana: 10 families left to wonder how a teenager could be capable of such evil. he shot a woman, a deacon and then he went in the store and started shooting again. i think for somebody to do something like that, it s sick. there is no excuse for nothing like that. all of them were innocent and did not deserve to die this way. i usually come back. thank god i didn t come back. dana: we re live in buffalo with the latest this morning. good morning, alexis. good morning. horrific day here in buffalo, new york and what a tragic weekend it was. a beautiful saturday afternoon. people in the grocery store in the east area of the city just doing some shopping on the weekend when this massacre happened. this morning the tops grocery store is still covered in crime scene tape, active and ongoing investigation by federal, local and state authorities still on
More than 700 people died in the gas sector in the last day. Earlier it was known about the death of at least 19 citizens of ukraine due to the war in israel. Meanwhile, the idf is ready for a ground operation against hamas and is awaiting political instructions. This was stated by Israeli Military spokesman daniel hagari. He noted that hostilities can take place for weeks. Hagari also told that their drinking plays a key role in negotiations for the release of the hostages from the gaza strip, and this is currently a top priority for israel. Germany and ukraine will jointly repair and maintain military equipment. This was announced by Prime Minister denys shmegal following a meeting with german chancellor olaf scholz. The rein metal concern and the Ukrainian Defense industry formed a joint venture. Its appearance is, without exaggeration , a landmark event that takes the relations between kyiv and berlin to a new level, noted the Prime Minister. We are actively working with german bus
The russians do not stop terrorizing the kherson region. A 52yearold man was injured as a result of the attacks, the office of the prosecutor general of ukraine reported. During the day, the enemy shelled the region 73 times, firing 469 shells. In particular, 46 along kherson. The enemy fired mortars, artillery, hail, tanks, aircraft and drones added the head of the region oleksandr prokudin. Residential blocks were damaged, the object was covered. Infrastructure, an engineering structure, a utility company, an Educational Institution and a church. 23 explosions rang out in sumy oblast, the russians shelled the border three times at night and in the morning, the Regional Military administration said. The krasnopil community was hit with a grenade launcher, znopnovska was hit with mortars, and the enemy dropped three mines in seredinobudsk. Russia attacked several regions with drones at night. In odesa, debris from drones damaged the roof of a warehouse building, oleg kiper, the head of