More mass shootings are happening at grocery stores — 13% of shooters are motivated by race, criminologists find

Racial hatred is a factor in 13% of mass shootings at grocery stores.John Normile/Getty Images Jillian Peterson, Hamline University and James Densley, Metropolitan State University 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. Mass public shootings in which four or more people are killed have become more frequent, and deadly, in the last decade. And the tragedy in Buffalo is the latest in a recent trend of mass publi…