Just days ago, Police are investigating the attack as a racist hate crime.

The president and first lady are meeting with family members of those killed as well as community leaders.

The alleged gunman is an 18 year old who has shown support for white supremacist ideals.

He attacked a grocery store in a predominantly African American neighborhood And 11 of the 13 people hit with gunfire were black.

President biden spoke just a while ago calling white supremacy theories a poison and asking americans to speak out against such ideas in America evil will not win.

I promise you hate will not prevail and white supremacy will not have the last word.

What happened here is simple and straightforward terrorism terrorism, domestic terrorism allow Washington bureau chief in this poll is in Buffalo.

She spoke of her president clearly moved by the consequences of this shooting.

I actually only saw two presidents cheering up while they were delivering a speech.

One was President Obama while talking after the school shooting of Sandy Hook.

And today president biden when he was talking about a victim who just wanted to buy a birthday cake for his son and got killed.

So this was on the one side, a very, very emotional speech when he talked about each single victim was very personal remarks and then it was also very strong political message.

He said that evil was in buffalo and it was white supremacy which killed here in Buffalo.

He recognized the shooter as a terrorist who followed a racist conspiracy theory and he called it directly domestic terrorism.

Is there anything more you can tell us about the suspect?

The suspect came from 200 miles away or so.

Why?

Because this is a very black neighborhood of Buffalo.

So he came here to this very supermarket right behind me because he could be pretty sure that he mainly would be able to kill black Americans.

We know That he when he was 17, right before he graduated already talked about A mass shooting and then he got some treatment by psychologists but got out of the hospital again.

And then once he graduated, kind of fell off the radar of police.

We know that he got his first weapon from his father with when he was 16.

We know that he loved weapons and we know that he was kind of a loner.

And what about this white supremacist replacement theory that he's been talking about?

That's also something President biden referred to in his speech recalling the white supremacists and neo nazis marching into Charlottesville Virginia shouting, we will replace you and with you.

They mean non white americans.

And that was the very moment When President Biden decided to run again also to fight this ideology ideology which was actually founded by a Frenchman some 10 years ago, mainly kind of saying that only White Christians have the right kind of to live here and everybody else should be excluded.

And this is highly political here in this country.

Why?

Because republicans used that argument to say that democrats led, for example, immigrants into the country just only for the reason that they would get reelected.

So all in all, a very hateful and a very political ideology.

DWS Bureau chief in the USNS Pole, thank you very much for your coverage.