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Gunman shoots 10 people to death, injured three in New York

<span style="color: #222222;">In the United States, an 18-year-old white gunman shot 10 people to death and injured three on Saturday at a grocery store in a Black neighborhood area of New York. <br />''<br />''Later, he surrendered to the police. Authorities called it an act of racially motivated violent extremism. Authorities said the suspect was armed with an assault-style rifle and appeared to have acted alone.<br />''</span><br />''News agencies report that eleven of the 13 people struck by gunfire were Black. The two others were white.<br />''<br />''Court papers named the suspect as Payton Gendron of Conklin, a town in New York's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border.<br />''<br />''Stephen Belongia, the FBI special agent in charge of the bureau's Buffalo field office, said the attack would be investigated both as a hate crime and as an act of racially motivated violent extremism under federal law.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">New York Governor Kathy Hochul told a news conference that she was dismayed that the killer managed to live-stream his attack on social media. </span><br />

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