New York: At least ten people were killed by a gunman in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York state, local media reported. The gunman opened fire after entering the supermarket located at a neighborhood dominated by black people, Xinhua news agency reported. The shooter has been taken in custody, tweeted Buffalo Police Department. US President Joe Biden has been briefed on "the horrific shooting" in Buffalo, according to the White House.
Biden "will continue to receive updates throughout the evening and tomorrow as further information develops," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. The gunman is a white man in late teens or early 20s wearing a black helmet, according to a report by the New York Post citing two witnesses of the carnage. An investigation is under way to check if the gunman posted a manifesto online and the shooting was believed to be live-streamed, said the report, citing a local enforcement official.