Mitch McConnell says Payton Gendron describes racism as “abhorrent” and “deranged.”

Ten people were killed and a suspect was arrested after a gunman wielding a rifle and body armour opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York on 14 May, in what is believed to be one of the deadliest racist massacres in recent American history and the deadliest mass shooting in the United States in 2022.

The shooting occurred in the 1200 block of Jefferson Avenue in the state’s second-largest city, in a predominately Black neighbourhood that authorities say the suspect purposefully targeted. In total, thirteen individuals were shot. Eleven of the victims were black.

The N-word and the number 14 — a notorious white supremacist code — are painted in white paint on the barrel of the rifle in close-up photos from a video of Saturday’s attack, which police believe was captured by the gunman himself.

A “manifesto” referencing racist and white nationalist motifs as well as far-right conspiracy theories has been discovered online and linked to the 18-year-old suspect Payton Gendron.

President Joe Biden visited in Buffalo on Tuesday to “grieve” alongside the community, calling Saturday’s incident “straightforward terrorism.”

“Hate will not triumph, and white supremacy will not have the final say,” he declared during an address at a Buffalo community centre.

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