EL PAÍS reconstructs the psychological and physical journey that took the 18-year-old from an idyllic suburb in Conklin to a supermarket in a Black neighborhood, 200 miles away, where he murdered 10 people (…) Gendron’s manifesto is, in substance and in form, an imitation of the one written by 28-year-old Australian Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 Muslims in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019. Tarrant, who was sentenced to life in prison, live-streamed 17 minutes of the killing spree. The Buffalo shooter also broadcast the massacre on Twitch, a live video platform owned by Amazon that is popular among video game lovers. By the time Twitch managed to remove the video, it was too late: it was already being shared across the internet. (…) Investigators are now focusing on an invitation Gendron sent to his private Discord chatroom just half an hour before the shooting. The invitation, headed “Happening: This is not a drill,” was accepted by 15 people, who were then able to access the plans he had been hatching for months as well as the livestream, which was filmed from a camera in his helmet.
via el pais: Payton Gendron: How the Buffalo shooter descended into the underworld of white supremacy