Buffalo shooter shared plans through website Discord

The white gunman accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket allowed a small group of people to see his detailed plans prior to the attack he had been chronicling for months in a private, online diary (Matt Rourke/AP)

The white gunman accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket allowed a small group of people to see his detailed plans prior to the attack he had been chronicling for months in a private, online diary.

Discord, the chat platform where 18-year-old Payton Gendron kept the diary, confirmed on Wednesday that an invitation to access his private writings was sent to the group about 30 minutes before Saturday’s attack at Tops Friendly Market, which he live-streamed on another online service. Some of them accepted.