The 18 year-old suspect in the Buffalo mass shooting where 10 people were killed on Saturday made a “generalized threat” while he attended Susquehanna Valley Central High School in June 2021, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Sunday. State police brought the student in for a mental health evaluation and he was released a day-and-a-half later, according to Gramaglia, who added that the 2021 threat was not racially motivated. New York State Police investigated a report that a 17-year-old student had made “a threatening statement, a spokesperson told CNN Sunday, adding that the student was taken to a hospital in June 2021 for a mental health evaluation. The spokesman said state police responded to Susquehanna High School in Conklin, NY, on June 8, 2021, following the threatening statement. “The student was taken into custody under NYS Mental Health Law section 9.41 and transported to the hospital for a mental health evaluation,” State Police told CNN in an email.
siehe auch: The #Buffalo #Shooter Isn’t a ‘#LoneWolf.’ He’s a Mainstream #Republican – #terror The right-wing extremists who control the modern GOP are all gripped by a racist delusion. The shooter is just the latest to act on it. There’s no such thing as a lone wolf — an appellation often given, in error, to terrorists who act alone, particularly those of the white supremacist variety. There are only those people who, fed on a steady diet of violent propaganda and stochastic terror, take annihilatory rhetoric to its logical conclusion. Such was the case on Saturday, when a teenaged white supremacist named Payton Gendron opened fire in a supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, killing ten people, while livestreaming the carnage on the live-video site Twitch.