: In the US, where mass shootings are socially contagious, grocery stores are becoming a common target #IndiaNEWS An apparently racially motivated attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, resulted

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In the US, where mass shootings are socially contagious, grocery stores are becoming a common target #IndiaNEWS
An apparently racially motivated attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, resulted in 10 deaths on May 14, with the teenage suspect allegedly targeting Black shoppers in a prominently African American neighbourhood.Mass public shootings in which four or more people are killed have become more frequent, and deadly, in the last decade in the United States. And the tragedy in Buffalo is the latest in a recent trend of mass public shootings taking place in retail establishments.We are criminologists who study the life histories of public mass shooters in the US. Since 2017, we have conducted dozens of interviews with incarcerated perpetrators and people who knew them. We also built a comprehensive database of mass public shootings using public data, with the shooters coded on over 200 different variables, including location and racial profile.What we knowOnly one shooting in our database prior to 2019 took place at a supermarket. In 1999, a 23-year-old white male with a history of criminal violence killed four people at a supermarket in Las Vegas. However, there has been a raft of mass shootings at American supermarkets since.The Buffalo shooting on May 14, is similar to an August 2019 shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. On that occasion, the 21-year-old white suspect posted a racist rant on social media before allegedly driving some distance...Read more

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