At approximately 2:30 today, an individual who the mayor stated is not from this area and is from hours away, drove to the Buffalo, went to 1275 Jefferson Avenue to the TOPS market.

He exited his vehicle, he was very heavily armed, he had tactical gear, he had a tactical helmet on, he had a camera that he was live streaming what he was doing.

The individual exited his car and engaged four individuals, he shot four people in the parking lot. three of those were deceased, one individual at this time is surviving the injury.

The individual went inside, as I said he's an 18 year old white male, walked into the store and began engaging customers inside the store.

One of the individuals inside the store is a security guard, a beloved security guard who was a retired Buffalo Police officer, a hero in our eyes, engaged the suspect fired multiple shots, struck the suspect.

But because he had heavily armed armored plating on, that bullet had no round, the suspect engaged⁽¹⁾ our retired officer, and he was ultimately shot and deceased at the scene.

He continued to work his way through the store, ultimately, he worked his way back towards the front of the store, Buffalo Police immediately respond engage the suspect.

In the vestibule of the store, and at that point the suspect put the gun to his own neck, Buffalo Police personnel two patrol officers talked the suspect into dropping the gun.

He dropped the gun took off some of his tactical gear surrendered at that point, and he was let outside, put in a police car and transported the Buffalo Police headquarters.

So as we said a total of 13 people were shot today, 10 deceased at the scene, and three sustained non-life-threatening injuries it appears to be non-life-threatening injuries at that point.

Four in total were store employees, one of those was the security guard who has worked at that location for a very long time.

And you know many officers on scene here knew him quite well, and the rest of the victims are customers of the store.

You know, as the mayor said, this is tragic incident, by someone who is not a part of our community, does not live here.

We'll let some of the other agencies get into the information has been posted online, and I will turn this over at this point first to our Erie County Sheriff John Garcia, I would like to thank all of the agencies.

We have a very very close working relationship with every level of government, every level of law enforcement, and everybody was immediately calling and responding, we had a command post set up.

And everybody is asking what we can do and how can we pitch in, the individuals from several hours away, the New York State Police and the FBI are investigating that part of the crime as well.

So I will turn this over at this point to Erie County Sheriff John Garcia, thank you.