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More mass shootings are happening at grocery stores – 13% of shooters are motivated by racial hatred, criminologists find

  • Written by Jillian Peterson, Professor of Criminal Justice, Hamline University
imageRacial hatred is a factor in 13% of mass shootings at grocery stores.John Normile/Getty Images

An apparently racially motivated attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, resulted in 10 deaths on May 14, 2022, with the teenage suspect allegedly targeting Black shoppers in a prominently African American neighborhood.

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