Payton Gendron said he decided to use an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle in his killing spree both for its effectiveness and potential to generate controversy.
The 18-year-old man accused in Saturday’s racist massacre scoped out the Tops supermarket in Buffalo the day before the shooting and was asked by a manager to leave, according to the manager’s brother.
The Erie County District Attorney's Office and federal prosecutors each will have the chance to prosecute the man accused of slaying 10 people and wounding three others in Saturday's hate-inspired attack in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo.
Felipe Rodriguez and Rodney Barnes-Staley, both 23 and both from Niagara Falls, could receive 20-year prison terms when they return for sentencing in July before Niagara County Judge Caroline Wojtaszek.
The move means a felony hearing in Buffalo City Court in the state case against Payton S. Gendron may proceed as scheduled Thursday morning. The hearing could not have been held unless the experts' examinations had been completed by then.
Here's what we know about events leading up to the shooting.
The quick response of Buffalo Police may have prevented the death toll from surpassing the 10 victims who were slain at Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue on Saturday, authorities said. But the circumstances around the peaceful surrender of the white supremacist shooter remained a sore spot among some in the Black community on Sunday afternoon.
"Even though you leave the job, the job doesn't leave you. I know he was thinking about, something was going wrong here. People's lives were in danger, and he was probably the only person who was in there that could help and save people," said retired Lt. Steven Malkowski.
Celestine Chaney went to Tops on Saturday afternoon with older sister JoAnn Daniels to get some shrimp her husband, Raymond, was in the mood for, and to pick up "her favorite" – strawberry shortcake. Instead of leaving the supermarket with cake cups, the strawberries and the shrimp, Chaney found herself trying in vain to flee a shooter.
In chilling detail, the accused shooter laid out in a 180-page manifesto why he wanted to kill, how he came to believe a racist conspiracy theory and then recorded himself driving to a supermarket on Jefferson Avenue and carrying out the attack.
Ruth Whitfield, the grandmother of eight, was a longtime parishioner at Durham Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church and sang in the choir. “She was a blessing to all of us,” her son said.
Many responded to a call by Community Fridge at 257 Jefferson Ave. to donate food to help families who were affected by Saturday's mass shooti…
Lautheria Goston and fiance Chance Parker and their two children had planned on being in Tops at the same time as the shooter, but Chance was …
Three attorneys representing the 18-year-old accused of what has been described by law enforcement as a racist massacre Saturday in a Buffalo supermarket will meet Monday to begin mapping out a defense strategy.
Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue isn’t going anywhere, store officials said. But, first, Tops is prioritizing getting its employees access to counseling and its customers access to food while the store is closed.
Residents of Conklin said they were shocked to learn that the 18-year-old accused of "pure evil" in the racist mass killing at a Buffalo Tops supermarket is from their town.
Katherine "Kat" Massey fought for her community.
She was an ardent advocate for civil rights and education and did everything she could to lift up Buffalo's Black community, said former Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant, who has been friends with Massey for more than 20 years.
Roberta Drury had just walked over to Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue Saturday afternoon to pick up a some groceries. Her friend, Dezzelynn McDuffie, said Drury, 32, never came back.
Ten people were gunned down at a Buffalo supermarket Saturday in a horrifying mass shooting that officials were quick to label as "pure evil" and racially motivated. 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.
Mental health counselors from an array of agencies will be available until 9 p.m. at the Johnnie B. Wiley Center, 1100 Jefferson Ave., following the mass shooting at the Tops Market on Jefferson Avenue on Saturday.
The FBI is asking anyone who has photos or videos related to the mass shooting at Tops Market on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo Saturday to submit them to a newly created website for that purpose.
People can upload photos, videos and tips to www.FBI.gov/Buffaloshooting.
The problem has been building over time, though it has caused increased concern of late, according to attorneys who work in the field.
Gov. Kathy Hochul took aim at white supremacist ideology and its online promoters Saturday in the wake of a mass shooting at a Tops Market on Jefferson Avenue, allegedly perpetrated by an 18-year-old white suspect dressed in military camouflage.
Described by Buffalo Police Chief Joseph Gramaglia as "a hero in our eyes," Aaron Salter is credited with confronting and shooting the assailant at the Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue before being shot to death on Saturday.
Holding vigil Saturday night outside the Tops supermarket where his 86-year-old mother was one of the 10 people murdered hours earlier in the day, retired Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell W. Whitfield found light and joy in the life Ruth Whitfield lived.
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