The 18-year-old surrendered to police as he exited the supermarket. GendronвЂ™s rifle had writings on it, including the names of other people whoвЂ™ve committed mass shootings, racial slurs and statements such as, вЂњHereвЂ™s your reparations!вЂќ, and a reference to the replacement theory, the affidavit said. Three wounded people - one Black, two white - survived the attack. There, authorities say, he fired approximately 60 shots at shoppers and workers using an AR-15-style rifle, wearing body armor to protect himself and livestreaming the carnage from a helmet-mounted camera. Gendron drove more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from his home in a nearly all-white town near the New York-Pennsylvania border to a predominantly Black part of Buffalo. The posts detail months of reconnaissance, demographic research and shooting practice for a bloodbath aimed at scaring everyone who isnвЂ™t white and Christian into leaving the country. In his writings, Gendron embraced a baseless conspiracy theory about a plot to diminish white AmericansвЂ™ power and вЂњreplaceвЂќ them with people of color, through immigration and other means. The affidavit also includes detailed accounts of GendronвЂ™s plot to attack the store, which he documented in detail in an online diary, and the attack itself, which he live streamed on social media. The federal hate crimes case is based partly on documents in which Gendron laid out his radical, racist worldview and extensive preparation for the attack, some of which he posted online shortly before he started shooting.ДЇBI agents executing a search warrant at GendronвЂ™s home the day after the shooting found a note in which he apologized to his family for the shooting and stated that he вЂњhad to commit this attackвЂќ because he cares вЂњfor the future of the White race,вЂќ according to an affidavit filed with the criminal complaint.ДЄgents at the Conklin, New York home also found a receipt for a candy bar purchased from the supermarket on March 8, the day Gendron said in an online diary he went to scout out the store, as well as hand drawn sketches of the storeвЂ™s layout, the affidavit said.

Gendron was already facing a mandatory life sentence without parole if convicted on previously filed state charges in the May 14 rampage at Tops Friendly Market. Garland placed a bouquet of white flowers tied with a yellow ribbon at a memorial to the victims outside the store, which has been shuttered since the attack. The attorney general was expected to address the federal charges and meet with the families of the people who were killed. The criminal complaint filed Wednesday against Payton Gendron coincided with a visit to Buffalo by Attorney General Merrick Garland. The white gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket was charged Wednesday with federal hate crimes and could face the death penalty if convicted.

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