USA Today
Hochul called the gunman a “white supremacist” who terrorized New York’s second-largest city in a “cold-hearted,” “military-style execution” as people were buying groceries.
“It strikes us in our very hearts to know that there’s such evil that lurks out there,” she said. “This individual – this white supremacist – who just perpetrated a hate crime on an innocent community, will spend the rest of his days behind bars. And heaven help him in the next world as well.”
President Joe Biden issued a statement saying he grieved for the families of those “whose lives were senselessly taken and everyone who is suffering the physical and emotional wounds of this horrific shooting.” Vice President Kamala Harris decried the “epidemic of hate across our country that has been evidenced by acts of violence and intolerance. We must call it out and condemn it.”
The suspect carried an assault weapon inscribed with a racial epithet, said U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins, citing briefings with law enforcement officials…
