USA: The suspect in the Buffalo shooting was detained for a mental health check in 2021

US authorities said on May 15, the suspect in the case shootings was arrested and assessed for mental health in 2021, but was released after about a day.

Suspect Payton Gendron, 18, turned himself in to police on May 15 at a Buffalo, New York grocery store, after what authorities called an act of “racially motivated violent extremism.” . This subject had previously published a racist statement on the Internet.

“The evidence that we have discovered so far shows that this is a racist crime and will be prosecuted as a hate crime,” Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told reporters. on 15/5.

Local officials said the 11 people hit by the bullets were black and two white.

Mr. Gramaglia told reporters that Gendron had been detained and given a psychiatric evaluation for more than 1.5 days in June 2021 but was released.

Suspect Payton Gendron is being held and monitored for suicide. (Photo: Sky News)

While the suspect did not provide further details, New York State police said in a statement on May 15 that they were called to a high school in Conklin, New York, near the Pennsylvania border, where Gendron lives, on June 8, 2021 in connection with the incident of a 17-year-old student making threats.

The student was detained and assessed for mental health at a hospital, but no criminal charges have been filed.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul told ABC News on May 15 that an investigation would focus on what could have been done to stop Gendron, because he expressed his views online. society and within the sights of the authorities.

The Buffalo shooting took place after the attack a series of other racist-motivated murders in recent years, including the attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 people dead in October 2018 and the Atlanta spa shooting in October. March 2021, in which a white man murdered 8 Asians.

US authorities say Gendron drove to Buffalo from his home hours away to carry out the attack, which he broadcast live on the social networking platform Twitch, a live video service. continue to be owned by Amazon.com (AMZN.O).

He then opened fire at Tops grocery store with a gun he had legally purchased but had illegally modified a high-capacity magazine, Ms. Hochul said.

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