Ten people were gunned down at a Buffalo supermarket May 14 in a horrifying mass shooting that officials were quick to label as "pure evil" and racially motivated.
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The shooting stunned a community basking in a warm May afternoon, with shoppers filling the Tops in a predominantly Black neighborhood at 1275 Jefferson Ave.
Of the 13 people shot, 11 were Black and two were white, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said. All 10 of the victims who were killed were Black, said Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn Jr. The suspect is white. The killings are being investigated as a racist hate crime.
The accused gunman, Payton S. Gendron, pleaded guilty to 15 charges in State Supreme Court in Buffalo on Nov. 28, 2022. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Feb. 15, 2023.
The shooting is the worst in Buffalo history.
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Shortly after the holidays, defense attorneys for the man who pleaded guilty to 10 state murder charges in the racist mass shooting at Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue will begin to make their pitch to the Justice Department that his should be spared.
Trinetta Alston, a licensed practical nurse with Community Health Center of Buffalo, was named an honorary Tops employee, presented with a Tops uniform shirt and an employee badge to signify she was one of them. She has been working with Tops employees since May 16, just two days after the mass shooting at the Jefferson Avenue store.
Some in Conklin, a town with 5,200 residents near Binghamton – with 89% of them white – express sympathy for the parents of Payton Gendron. But they’re reluctant to talk publicly about them.
Zeneta Everhart called it an "honor" for the chance to represent Buffalo at Biden's speech.
In court Wednesday, before Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan hands down his sentence, the shooter will face the loved ones of those whose lives he took nine months ago.
Families of victims and survivors of the mass shooting at Tops on Jefferson Avenue tell the court about their loved ones, and how the hate crime May 14 affected their lives.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tripi said discussions are proceeding on whether to seek the death penalty against the convicted shooter.
Michelle Spight lost both her cousin, Margus Morrison, and her aunt, Pearl Young, in the 123-second terror attack that claimed 10 lives on May 14.
Wayne Jones tells a story that helps explain why he stood in front of a packed Erie County courtroom the other day, directly addressing the ma…
More so than those in other years, the most impactful stories of the past 12 months will reverberate far into the future. Two, in particular – The Tops mass shooting and the Christmastime blizzard – will stick with us – for the sheer horror.
The raw emotions of the May 14 massacre at the Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue spilled out into a packed courtroom on Wednesday, Feb. 15,…