Last month, the juvenile shooter suspected of killing ten people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, was charged with domestic terrorism.

Payton Gendron, who had previously pleaded not guilty, is accused of being motivated by racial hate, according to prosecutors.

During the massacre, the suspect, who portrays himself as a white nationalist, is suspected of shooting 13 individuals in total, virtually all of them were black.

He will also be charged with ten counts of first-degree murder.

The defendant is accused of killing “because of the presumed ethnicity and/or colour” of his victims, according to a domestic terrorism accusation filed on Wednesday.

According to the news agency AFP, the 25-count indictment also contains several murder and attempted murder counts as hate crimes, as well as allegations of weapon possession.

The suspect is suspected of driving more than 320 kilometres (200 miles) to a predominately black neighbourhood in Buffalo, New York’s second-largest city, where ten people were murdered and three more were injured in the May 14 shooting.

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Mayor Byron Brown claimed after the incident that the suspect had travelled there with the express purpose of ending “as many black lives as possible.”

Since then, a 180-page essay purportedly written by the accused attacker has surfaced, in which he labels himself as a fascist and white supremacist.

The gunman, dressed in military gear, drove into the car park at the city’s Tops Friendly Market and began live-streaming the shooting spree.

A security guard fired several shots at the attacker, but police said he was protected by a bulletproof vest. The gunman is accused of killing the guard before continuing his attack.

All of the 10 people who were killed were black.

Among those shot dead, who ranged in age from 32 to 86, were a man buying cupcakes for his son’s birthday and a woman who had gone shopping after visiting her husband at a nursing home.

Separately, New York state’s top prosecutor is investigating whether social media companies enabled the attack by allowing it to be streamed, promoted, or planned over their platforms.

“The fact that an individual can post detailed plans to commit such an act of hate without consequence, and then stream it for the world to see is bone-chilling and unfathomable,” Attorney General Letitia James said.

Twitch, the website where the attack was streamed, said the video was taken down less than two minutes after the violence began – but not before it was duplicated and shared on other streaming sites.

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