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Photos: Gunman’s ‘racially motivated violent extremism’ leaves 10 dead in Buffalo shooting

Two people hug
Jeanne LeGall and Claudia Carballada embrace on Sunday as they pay their respects at a makeshift memorial at the site of a mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
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As Buffalo residents expressed horror, anger and grief Sunday over a mass shooting that left 10 people dead at a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood, local and federal officials said they were investigating the attack by a young white gunman as a hate crime and an act of “racially motivated violent extremism.”

Police vehicles and yellow tape in front of a grocery store
Law enforcement officials on Sunday at the scene of a mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
Jeanne LeGall and Claudia Carballada embrace
Jeanne LeGall and Claudia Carballada embrace on Sunday as they pay their respects at a makeshift memorial.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
People stand in a circle holding hands
Mourners form a prayer circle Sunday at the site of a mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
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Names written in chalk on the sidewalk
Aaron Jordan adds to a sidewalk-chalk mural depicting the names of the people killed in the mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
Yanilka Faneyte pays her respects at a memorial
Yanilka Faneyte pays her respects at a memorial at the site of Buffalo’s mass shooting.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
People embrace in front of a sidewalk memorial
Mourners embrace at a makeshift memorial for the 10 people killed at a Buffalo grocery store.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
People pray at the scene of a mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market
People pray at the scene of a mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
Timothy Kujawski of Buffalo lights candles at a makeshift memorial
Timothy Kujawski lights candles at a makeshift memorial as people gather at the scene of Buffalo’s mass shooting.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
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