The suspect in the mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, has been identified as 18-year-old Payton Gendron.
A government official told The Buffalo News that the gun the man used was written with a white supremacist slogan and the N-word.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, David Lane is a member of the white supremacist terrorist group known as The Order.
The 180-page manifesto was believed to belong to Gendron and contained racist and anti-semitic views. The New York Times reported that it referenced a far-right ideology that claims white people are being replaced by people of color.
The self-proclaimed "white supremacist" author said that they had not grown up in a racist environment, but had been radicalized online, in a document that was circulating online after the attack.
According to The Daily Mail, Gendron lives in Conklin, New York, with his father and mother, both engineers for the New York transit department.
According to The Buffalo News, Gendron had been investigated by police for making threats of violence at the high school.
A school official reported that a troubled young man had made statements indicating that he wanted to do a shooting, either at a graduation ceremony or sometime after, according to a government official familiar with the case.
The official said that Gendron was referred for a mental health evaluation and counseling after being investigated by state police.
A college spokesman told The Buffalo News that he is no longer studying at the college. They didn't say when he was Enrolled or why he left.
Gendron drove three and a half hours to get to the Tops supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood to carry out the attack.
The suspect arrived dressed in heavy tactical gear, heavy-duty body armor, and live-streamed the shooting on the internet.
Gendron appeared in court wearing a mask and gown. He pleaded not guilty to the murder charge.
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