No official information has yet been released on the number of fatalities. At least ten people are said to have died, according to ABC News.
That information has not yet been confirmed by police. It was confirmed that the shooter was “captured”, but police did not give any further details about his condition.
Witnesses at the scene said the gunman entered the supermarket around 2:30 p.m. local time and opened fire on at least eight people. Various media describe the perpetrator as an 18-year-old young man, dressed in a military uniform.
A grocery store employee told local news station Buffalo News how the shooting broke out minutes after he went to the cold store. “I heard shots. Shots and shots and shots,” he said. “I hid. I just hid. I was not going to leave that room.”
A police officer said that when he entered the supermarket it was like “walking into a horror movie”.
According to the newspaper, the gunman was carrying a camera and police are investigating whether he livestreamed his act on the internet. Reports are circulating on social media that he published a manifesto prior to his act calling himself a racist and an anti-Semite.
Motorists and local residents are asked to avoid the vicinity of the Tops Market supermarket on Jefferson Avenue.