Buffalo Mass Shooting Takes 10 Lives, 3 Wounded

In a local Tops on a Saturday afternoon, a predominantly Black community in Buffalo faced a horrific racially motivated mass shooting. The shooter has been identified as 18-year-old Payton Gendron of Conklin in Broome County, near Binghamton. Discoveries of the shooter circulated on social media shortly after, and it was then found a hate-filled, 180-page manifesto, written by the shooter. Of the 13 people shot, 11 were Black and two were White, four of those shot were store employees, and one dead included the security guard, who confronted the gunman. The shooter was arraigned yesterday evening before Buffalo City Court Judge Craig Hannah on a first-degree murder charge.

Governor Kathy Hochul quickly flew in from Albany to her hometown, Buffalo, to address this act of terrorism: “It strikes us in our very heart to know that such evil lurks out there. Yes, I’m here to console the families and the community that is feeling so much pain right now but mark my words, we’ll be aggressive in our pursuit of anyone who subscribes to the ideals professed by other white supremacists…Those who provide these platforms, have a moral, an ethical and I hope to have a legal responsibility to ensure that such hate can not populate these sites because this is the result.”

Source: The Buffalo News