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“Could that change?” he added. “Absolutely.”

Authorities said that Mr. Gendron traveled more than 200 miles from his home in Conklin, N.Y., in the state’s Southern Tier, to commit his attack after carefully choosing the East Side neighborhood in Buffalo because of its large number of Black residents.

In the months before the shooting, Mr. Gendron had written an extensive series of racist comments in a private online diary, including plans for an attack in Buffalo, photos of tactical gear and the assault-style weapon that officials say he used to carry out the shooting, and other musings, using the messaging site Discord.

Just before the attack, Mr. Gendron shared those writings with a small group of people; Mr. Gendron also briefly livestreamed the attack on Twitch, an Amazon-owned site popular with video gamers.

“There’s a lot of evidence here,” said Mr. Flynn.

He added that he would fight any effort by the defense to move the trial out of Erie County. “This happened in our community,” Mr. Flynn said.

Mr. Gendron surrendered to the police after the shooting, and days later, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced an executive order directing the State Police to establish a new unit to monitor “violent extremism through social media,” like the channels Mr. Gendron is believed to have used.

Ms. Hochul has also backed a series of new measures to tighten the state’s already stringent gun laws, including raising the age for ownership of semiautomatic rifles, like the one Mr. Gendron is believed to have used, to 21. Those bills were beginning to be passed in Albany on Thursday by the State Legislature, which is controlled by Democrats.

Mr. Gendron’s attack came just 10 days before a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which left 21 people dead, including 19 children. The gunman in that shooting, Salvador Ramos, 18, who died in the attack, also used an assault-style rifle. And on Wednesday, there was another shooting in Tulsa, Okla., where a man killed four people at medical center, carrying a semiautomatic rifle and a handgun.