'So that means any content in the document we should treat with some suspicion.' 'Although he is seemingly candidly laying out his thoughts and observations on the world his planning for the attack, he's also writing for an audience,' said Emerson Brooking, resident senior fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council. The record, created on the social chat platform Discord, paints a picture of a committed racist obsessed with the mechanics of planning and executing a deadly mass shooting.Īmong the questions that experts are bringing to the document are: what red flags might have been missed by those around this individual? Where might there have been an intervention? And, what insight might it offer on what differentiates someone who carries out a violent attack from others who may share similar extremist views?īut they also caution that the record should be read with a degree of skepticism. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesĮxtremism researchers are combing through the digital footprint believed to be left behind by the man accused of shooting 13 people, killing 10 of them, in a racially motivated attack at a Buffalo supermarket.Īmong the materials is a nearly 600 page chat log written by an individual who identifies himself as Payton Gendron, the same name as the killing suspect, documenting roughly six months of personal reflections and activities leading up to the attack. People gather at the scene of a mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market at Jefferson Avenue and Riley Street on Monday, in Buffalo, NY.

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