Buffalo shooting suspect faces 25 charges – including domestic terrorism – for mass shooting that killed 10 Black people

• A suspected shooter killed 10 and injured three at a Buffalo supermarket.

• He now faces 25 charges, including attempted murder and first- and second-degree murder.

• He could be sentenced to life without parole.

The 18-year-old shooting suspect accused of opening fire at a Buffalo supermarket has been charged with 25 counts, including first-degree hate-motivated domestic terrorism, the New reported York Times.

The suspect in the shooting surrendered to police on May 14 after live-streaming the massacre that left 10 black people dead and three others injured.

He faces three counts of attempted murder as well as 10 counts of first-degree murder and 10 counts of second-degree murder as a hate crime, according to the indictment released by the outlet local WKBY.

He also faces a charge of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

Acts of domestic terrorism motivated by first-degree hate could result in the suspect receiving a sentence of life in prison without parole.

The shooting began shortly after 2:30 p.m. in the Tops supermarket parking lot before the suspect entered the store with an AR-15-style rifle. The suspect detailed his plans online several months before the mass shooting.

Eleven of the 13 victims were black and two were white. Police called the shooting “racially motivated.”

“This is a community where people love each other. The shooter was not from this community,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said at a news conference the day of the shooting. “In fact, the shooter traveled for hours outside of this community to carry out this crime in Buffalo.”

“This man was motivated by hatred against people he had never met, for no reason other than the color of their skin,” Buffalo attorney John Elmore, representing two victims, told the Associated Press .

The Buffalo shooting was the worst of 2022 for less than two weeks before the Uvalde shooting killed 19 children and two teachers.

The suspect’s arraignment is scheduled for Thursday. His lawyer and Elmore did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.

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