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Law enforcement officials say the Buffalo, New York, supermarket shooting has underscored their long-held fear that someone could be radicalized online, have access to guns, take inspiration from prior attacks and then carry out an act of murderous violence against a soft target, like a grocery store. Ten people -- most of whom were Black -- were killed in Saturday's mass shooting in Buffalo in a rampage authorities are calling a "racially-motivated hate crime." The 180-page document believed to have been written by the Buffalo suspect, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, includes praise for the 2015 mass shooting at a Charleston, South Carolina, church where nine Black parishioners were gunned down. Evidence points to the Buffalo shooting being a calculated, racially-motivated execution by a teenager who appeared to have been targeting Black people, according to multiple sources and a review of FBI cases and testimony. The hate-filled document apparently written by Gendron … [Read more...] about Buffalo supermarket shooting reflects law enforcement’s fears

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for May 15 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Law enforcement officials took to horseback on Sunday in the search for 46-year-old Gonzalo Lopez, a convicted murderer who escaped from a prison transport bus on Thursday after stabbing the driver and fleeing on foot. Lopez escaped in Leon County, a rural area in between Dallas and Houston that has about 16,000 residents. "We have no reason to believe he has left the area," the Leon County Sheriff's Office said Saturday. "There is no evidence to support that, at this time." Gonzalo Lopez escaped from the prison bus after stabbing a correction officer during transportation. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice) Lopez is serving a life sentence for kidnapping a man and killing him with a pickax in Hidalgo County near the U.S.-Mexico border … [Read more...] about Texas law enforcement searches for escaped convicted murderer on horseback; reward increased

close Video Over 340 million lethal doses of fentanyl seized at southern border since last year: Report Fox News' Bill Melugin is live from Eagle Pass, Texas, reporting on high doses of fentanyl pouring into the country per Texas border officials. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Families Against Fentanyl , an organization raising awareness about the dangers of the deadly synthetic opioid, are asking the Biden administration to count fentanyl poisoning and overdose deaths the same way it counted COVID-19 deaths. The organization, which is in regular communication with hundreds of individuals impacted by the opioid crisis, sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky on May 10, which the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) designated as National Fentanyl Awareness Day for the first time this year. … [Read more...] about Fentanyl awareness group asks Biden admin to track poisoning, overdose deaths like COVID-19 deaths

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman accused of committing a racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket made threating comments that brought police to his high school last spring, but he was never charged with a crime and had no further contact with law enforcement after his release from a hospital, officials said. The revelation raised questions about whether his encounter with police and the mental health system was yet another missed opportunity to put a potential mass shooter under closer law enforcement scrutiny, get him help, or make sure he didn’t have access to deadly firearms. Authorities said Sunday that they were investigating the attack on predominantly Black shoppers and workers at the Tops Friendly Market as a potential federal hate crime or act of domestic terrorism. Payton Gendron, 18, traveled about 200 miles (320 kilometers) from his home in Conklin, New York, to Buffalo to commit the attack, police said. Federal authorities were still working to confirm the … [Read more...] about Buffalo shooter’s prior threat, hospital stay face scrutiny

Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. His forthcoming paperback is " The Cost of Chaos: The Trump Administration and the World ." View more opinion on CNN. (CNN) The story is all-too familiar: A man allegedly armed with grievance and a gun kills fellow citizens who are strangers to him, singling them out only because of their race or creed. It's a very American tale of domestic terrorism which appears to have struck once again on Saturday, this time in the city of Buffalo, New York. And it is playing out with increasing frequency in the United States. In June 2015, a white nationalist killed nine people attending a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina. The shooter was hoping to foment a race war. Peter Bergen In October 2018, during a shooting at a synagogue near Pittsburgh, an anti-Semite killed 11 people. The … [Read more...] about Opinion: The terrorists among us, and how to stop them

Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is the senior editor of the Coronavirus Daily Brief and author of the new book " The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden ." The opinions expressed here are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. (CNN) The January 6 insurrection was both a peak of contemporary American White nationalism and a dress rehearsal for what will likely come next. Simply put, the attack on the US Capitol was the culmination of political trends in the United States that have festered for decades -- and a warning from history about how the politics of the next several years may unfold. What the January 6 report means for the future of democracy The most significant US political development during the past few years has been the rise of homegrown American extremism . This movement has many facets, from the growth of White nationalism to … [Read more...] about January 6 may have just been a dress rehearsal

She was the prison boss who fell for a 6ft 9in jailbird monster under her care as she helped him to escape and then flee from police but ultimately led to her death. Vicky White put together a sophisticated plan to break out Casey Cole White which included stockpiling guns for a police shootout - but also a visit to sex shops ahead of a new life with her doomed lover. The pair - who were not related - have been described as the modern day Bonnie and Clyde . Vicky, 56, formerly second in command at Alabama's Lauderdale County Jail, fell head over heels for the 38-year-old white supremacist who was serving a 75-year sentence for a string of crimes including attempted murder, robbery and burglary. He was also facing a charge of murder over the stabbing of a 58-year-old woman in 2015. The pair are said to have been in a "jailhouse romance" for around two years. Vicky's estranged husband had died of Parkinson’s in January and they had no children together. Since their … [Read more...] about Inside prison guard’s dramatic jailbreak with monster 6’9 lover – sex toys to shootout

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 6 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden urged unity Sunday to address the “hate that remains a stain on the soul of America” after a deadly mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, while state officials pleaded for federal action to end the ”uniquely American phenomenon” of mass shootings. Addressing an annual law enforcement ceremony at the U.S. Capitol, Biden said he and his wife, Jill, pray for those who were shot “by a lone gunman, armed with weapons of war and hate-filled soul,” and their families. Authorities say a white 18-year-old male in military gear opened fire on shoppers and workers at the supermarket on Saturday, killing 10 people, including a retired Buffalo police officer, and wounding three others. Most of the victims were Black. Law enforcement officials said Sunday that the gunman had researched the local demographics while looking for … [Read more...] about Biden urges unity to stem racial hate after Buffalo shooting

close Video Kathy Hochul implores social media companies to better monitor content after Buffalo shooting The Democratic governor of New York said social media companies should "be able to identify the second that this hate speech appears." NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Federal and state investigators have interviewed the parents of accused mass shooter Payton Gendron and have executed a number of search warrant in connection with his alleged Saturday attack, which left 10 people dead and another three wounded, officials said Sunday. New York State troopers and agents with the FBI traveled to 18-year-old Gendron’s home on Sunday to speak with the parents have been cooperative with authorities, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told reporters during a Sunday press conference. "From what I’ve been told, they’re absolutely distraught and devastated," Gramaglia said. Payton S. Gendron ((Erie County DA / AP … [Read more...] about Buffalo shooting suspect Payton Gendron’s parents interviewed by feds day after supermarket attack: Officials

By ALLISON SHERRY , The Associated Press DENVER — A few days before Christmas last year, a man and a woman entered a KeyBank at 2nd Avenue and Broadway in Denver donning COVID masks and caps and passed a note to a bank teller: “Hand me all your money and you will not get hurt.” The teller, M.N., who said she was terrified, handed over a grip of bills, $1,269, along with a covert GPS tracker. The robbers fled in a dark-colored truck. Last year in Colorado, that scene, including the threatening note and the relatively small take, happened almost 200 times. In 2021, Colorado’s FBI field office ranked No. 1 for bank robberies in the country. Normally, Colorado has between 110 and 120 bank robberies a year. That number dropped to 90 in 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns. Last year, though, it spiked to 195 robberies. “It is a lot,” said Michael Schneider, Denver FBI’s special agent in charge. “These are violent crimes. … These have a significant impact on … [Read more...] about Colorado tops in bank robberies in 2021; some blame fentanyl