Ten people were left dead and three injured after an 18-year-old white gunman opened fire at a grocery store in a black neighbourhood on Saturday, May 14.

In the incident that law enforcement officials described as a racially motivated hate crime, the suspect identified as Payton Gendron, drove to buffalo from his home several hours away to launch the attack.

He opened fire on shoppers and employees including a security guard as he broadcasted the turn out of events in real-time through Twitch, a live video service owned by Amazon.com.

According to the authorities, the teenager who was a student at the State University of New York Broome Community college was close to taking his own life when officers arrived.

The officers talked him into dropping the weapon and surrendering. He was arrested and arraigned in court hours after the shooting.

He was charged with first-degree murder and held without bail to undergo a forensic examination.

Different leaders such as US President Joe Biden and Bufallo mayor Byron Brown have heavily condemned the incident.

“Any act of domestic terrorism, including an act perpetrated in the name of a repugnant white nationalist ideology, is antithetical to everything we stand for in America,” Biden stated.