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Jeanne LeGall and Claudia Carballada embrace on Sunday as they pay their respects at a makeshift memorial at the site of a mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
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As Buffalo residents expressed horror, anger and grief Sunday over a mass shooting that left 10 people dead at a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood, local and federal officials said they were investigating the attack by a young white gunman as a hate crime and an act of “racially motivated violent extremism.”
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Law enforcement officials on Sunday at the scene of a mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
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Jeanne LeGall and Claudia Carballada embrace on Sunday as they pay their respects at a makeshift memorial.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
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Mourners form a prayer circle Sunday at the site of a mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
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Aaron Jordan adds to a sidewalk-chalk mural depicting the names of the people killed in the mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
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Yanilka Faneyte pays her respects at a memorial at the site of Buffalo’s mass shooting.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
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Mourners embrace at a makeshift memorial for the 10 people killed at a Buffalo grocery store.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
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People pray at the scene of a mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
![Timothy Kujawski of Buffalo lights candles at a makeshift memorial](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b0cdea3/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6000x4000+0+0/resize/2000x1333!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fe5%2Ffa%2F85d328b54a47b5dfe302c170f826%2F959719-na-0515-buffalo-shooting-kkn-24255.jpg)
Timothy Kujawski lights candles at a makeshift memorial as people gather at the scene of Buffalo’s mass shooting.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
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