{"id":1496513,"date":"2022-05-29T16:44:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496513"},"modified":"2022-05-29T16:45:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:45:01","slug":"retired-federal-agent-may-have-known-of-buffalo-shooting-in-advance-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/retired-federal-agent-may-have-known-of-buffalo-shooting-in-advance-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Federal Agent May Have Known Of Buffalo Shooting In Advance: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fretired-federal-agent-may-have-known-of-buffalo-shooting-in-advance-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496513&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Authorities are investigating whether or not a retired federal agent had advanced warning that a white supremacist was planning on murdering black people at a supermarket in New York earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after the attacker, who The Daily Wire is not naming due to company policy about not giving notoriety to those responsible for mass casualty events, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shooter-kills-10-wounds-three-in-buffalo-grocery-store-authorities-investigating-as-racially-motivated-attack\">killed<\/a> 10 black people in the attack at a Tops Friendly Markets store in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>The retired agent is believed to be one of six people who had regular contact with the attacker in an extremist online chat room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation stated these individuals were invited by [the assailant] to read about his mass shooting plans and the target location about 30 minutes before [the assailant] killed 10 people at Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue on May 14,\u201d The Buffalo News <a href=\"https:\/\/buffalonews.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/authorities-investigating-if-retired-federal-agent-knew-of-buffalo-mass-shooting-plans-in-advance\/article_bd408f18-dd39-11ec-be53-df8fdd095d6f.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cAgents from the FBI are in the process of tracking down and interviewing the six people, including the retired agent, and attempting to determine if any of them should be charged as accomplices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not known whether the six individuals received the invitation and read it before the tragedy occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese were like-minded people who used this chat group to talk about their shared interests in racial hatred, replacement theory and hatred of anyone who is Jewish, a person of color or not of European ancestry,\u201d said a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. \u201cWhat is especially upsetting is that these six people received advanced notice of the Buffalo shooting, about 30 minutes before it happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI has verified that none of these people called law enforcement to warn them about the shooting,\u201d the official added. \u201cThe FBI database shows no advance tips from anyone that this shooting was about to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after another mass casualty event happened this last week in Texas where an 18-year-old Latino killed 19 students at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The assailant in Texas was killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent who had just sat down for a haircut when his wife, who was a teacher at Robb Elementary School, texted him and told him what was happening and asked him for help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s an active shooter,\u201d she said. \u201cHelp. I love you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/05\/26\/us\/texas-elementary-school-shooting?smid=url-share#border-patrol-agent-uvalde-response\">reported<\/a> that the Border Patrol agent\u2019s barber gave him a shotgun and that the agent then ran out of the barbershop and sped to the school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are investigating whether or not a retired federal agent had advanced warning that a white supremacist was planning on murdering black people at a supermarket in New York earlier this month. 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