On May 14 local time, an 18-year-old white man in the United States opened fire with a gun in Buffalo, New York, killing at least 10 people. The report shows that the murderer's online name is "jimboboiii". He logged in to the game live broadcast platform twitch for the whole live broadcast during the shooting, and has been arrested by the police. The killer issued a 180 page manifesto detailing his racist and anti Semitic views, blaming the controversial online forum 4chan in part. The declaration also mentioned that he had disclosed the shooting plan in advance on discord's private chat server.
The gunman opened fire in the tops friendly market supermarket on Jefferson street. According to local media reports, an eyewitness said the supermarket was overcrowded at the time of the incident. Payton Gendron, a young man named "jimboboiii", stopped at the supermarket and immediately shot four people in the parking lot, killing three of them. Then, Gendron entered the supermarket and shot at many people, including a retired local policeman who worked as a security guard in the supermarket.
Gendron comes from Conklin, 200 miles southeast of buffalo. According to the news released by the local police, Gendron was wearing heavy armor and had "tactical armor, tactical helmet and camera for live broadcasting". Although the shooting process has been shared with the killer's Twitter channel, the platform has deleted this channel for the first time after receiving the news.
Time Related videos were quickly removed from the platform, but there are still video screenshots and clips circulating on the network. Although jimboboiii's Twitter channel has been taken off the shelves, there is a tubing channel that has not been updated for at least three years, which may be related to it. In addition, he also has a steam account.
The murderer's intentions were spelled out in the declaration. The killer claimed that 4chan forum was the source of his radical behavior and expressed his hatred for black and Jewish groups. The declaration also detailed his upcoming shooting plan, with charts. In addition, screenshots of him discussing the shooting plan on the discord private channel have also flowed out on social media.
In an interview via email, a twitter spokesman said he was very sorry about the incident and reiterated his "zero tolerance" strategy for violence.
The spokesperson of twitter said, "we are shocked that all kinds of violence will be banned from Twitter's accounts this afternoon. We will take all kinds of actions to quickly identify it. We will be very sympathetic to this incident. We will take all kinds of actions to prevent it from spreading. We will take all kinds of violence to Twitter's accounts this afternoon."
The killer also said that he had intended to publish the plan to the more controversial 8chan forum. There should have been a link to the original 8chan post in 4chan's post. According to the New York Times, discord said it was investigating the content posted by Gendron on a private server before the shooting and cooperating with local law enforcement.
"We deeply sympathize with the victims and their families and will do everything we can to assist law enforcement in their investigation," discord said
In the past, discord has been transparent about extremism on the platform. According to the transparency report in the second half of 2020, discord deleted 1500 private servers related to "violent extremism", which is "93% higher than that in the first half of the year". On another level, such data reflects that this platform is deeply loved by the far right, and the number of relevant servers has increased explosively, making it another hotbed of violence on the Internet.
Police said the murderer was suspected of racial hate crimes, but Payton Gendron was charged with first-degree murder and refused to plead guilty.