Havana, May 15 (RHC) Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez expressed on Sunday his heartfelt condolences to the victims of the brutal shooting that occurred the day before in the city of Buffalo, United States.

The foreign minister expressed his condolences through Twitter.

A mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, in the U.S. state of New York, left a dozen dead.

During a press conference, the local police commissioner, Joseph A. Gramaglia, said that the shooting perpetrator, an 18-year-old white man, is already in custody.

Gramaglia confirmed that 13 people were shot, and ten of them died at the scene. At the same time, Trini E. Ross, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, stated that they would investigate this case as a hate crime and violent extremism.

Details of what happened are circulating in social media networks, such as the fact that the perpetrator was wearing a supremacist symbol used by the Ukrainian ultranationalist Azov battalion, also described as neo-Nazi.

Data from the Gun Violence Archive organization reveal that the number of people killed by firearms in the United States this year amounts to 15,000 people and mass shootings to 198.