Buffalo shooting

Suspected gunman shot 11 Black and two white victims at a supermarket he broadcast on streaming platform Twitch before surrendering.

Hochul said that the shooter’s gun, an AR-15, was purchased legally in the state. She was a blessing to all of us,” former Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield told the Buffalo News. “The justice department is investigating this matter as a hate crime and an act of racially-motivated violent extremism. Community members gathered outside the Tops on Sunday morning for a prayer vigil. A law enforcement official told the Associated Press that investigators were looking into whether he had posted a manifesto online. A bullet hit the gunman’s bulletproof armor but had no effect, Gramaglia said.

A teenage gunman, wearing tactical gear and a livestreaming camera, killed 10 people and wounded 3 more in a hate-fueled shooting rampage in Buffalo.

The shooter "worked his way through the store" firing at others, and in the store's lobby was confronted by Buffalo police, police said. A retired Buffalo police officer identified by authorities as Aaron Salter working in the store as a security guard confronted the shooter and shot him. The same group, Wray told a Senate committee last year, were responsible for the most lethal attacks in the past decade. "When I came out here I just (saw) bodies laying in front of the store." "This individual – this white supremacist – who just perpetrated a hate crime on an innocent community, will spend the rest of his days behind bars. "This is in a league of it’s own...a whole new dimension," she said. Her cousin hid in a freezer and was not injured, she said. "A lot of people got away, thank God." The FBI is investigating the shooting as a hate crime and racially-motivated violent extremism. After Gendron entered the store, "he began engaging customers inside," Gramaglia said. Voice Buffalo and other equity advocacy groups organized a vigil near the shooting scene that drew a crowd of hundreds Sunday morning. Eleven of the 13 people who were shot were Black, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said.

Church services and prayer vigils are planned throughout the day in Buffalo on Sunday, in response to a teenage gunman shooting 13 people, 10 fatally, at a Tops ...

"Try to be better for ourselves and try to fix this scar in our city." "Tonight, we grieve for the families of ten people whose lives were senselessly taken and everyone who is suffering the physical and emotional wounds of this horrific shooting. A retired Buffalo police officer working in the store as a security guard confronted the shooter and shot him. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims at this difficult time.” This is not just a shopping center but its an area where a lot of people knew each other and a lot of people are close to each other." We are working to find alternatives for our customers in this community while the store is closed and will provide updates in the near future." "A lot of people know each other in this community, said Michael Ray of Buffalo, who lives about a mile from the Tops store where he's also a regular customer. The Erie County-based grocery store chain operates more than 150 grocery stores, most of which are in New York. The Jefferson Avenue store is one of seven Tops store located in Buffalo, according to the company's website. Hundreds of people gathered near the store Sunday morning for a prayer vigil. "Too much hurt is in our community," Blue said. "This is in a league of it’s own...a whole new dimension," she said. "Lord forgive the anger in my heart right now, I was raised to love and respect and care, referenced Psalm 34," she said.

This individual came here with the express purpose of taking as many Black lives as he could,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said at a news conference Sunday.

“My mother had just gone to see my father, as she does every day, in the nursing home and stopped at the Tops to buy just a few groceries. She was confirmed as a victim later in the day, Brown said. He looked after the store,” Yvette Mack, who had shopped at Tops earlier Saturday, said of Salter. “He did a good job you know. Gendron, confronted by police in the store’s vestibule, put a rifle to his neck but was convinced to drop it. New York State Police said troopers were called to the Conklin school on June 8, 2021, for a report that a 17-year-old student had made threatening statements. But after we pray — after we get up off of our knees — we’ve got to demand change. The market is located in a predominantly Black neighborhood. The Buffalo attack came just a month after a shooting on a Brooklyn subway wounded 10 and just over a year after 10 were killed in a shooting at a Colorado supermarket. All others, the document said, were “replacers” who should be eliminated by force or terror. I’m trying to bear witness but it’s just too much. The attack was intended to intimidate all non-white, non-Christian people and get them to leave the country, it said. “It’s just too much.

The man accused of killing 10 at a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday had made threats against his high school, the police said; a gun dealer who said he sold ...

He shot shoppers and employees, according to the police, leaving a trail of bodies in the aisles. He wrote out a lengthy manifesto that was steeped in the “great replacement” doctrine, which argues that whites are at risk of being replaced by people of color. It unfolded in a largely Black neighborhood in Buffalo, and 11 of the people shot were Black, officials said. Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said on Sunday that the shooting suspect had been brought in for a mental health evaluation last June after making what Mr. Gramaglia said was a generalized threat to a classmate. “He was on the police force for 30 years and nothing like this ever happened,” his son said. Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia declined to share the details of when the suspect purchased the assault rifle used in the shooting, but he said that law enforcement had come up with a timeline. The police said that the suspect, who was identified as Payton Gendron, was apprehended with three weapons: a rifle, a shotgun and the AR-15-style weapon he used to carry out the attack. Described as a “hero” by the Buffalo Police Department’s commissioner, Mr. Salter confronted the gunman and exchanged fire with him when he entered the supermarket Saturday afternoon. “She always was the center of attention and made the whole room smile and laugh.” “Until we are honest about that, and honest about the cultural addiction to hate and the myth of racial superiority, we’ll constantly find ourselves revisiting these crises and asking the same questions,” he said. The gunman targeted the Tops because of its location in a largely Black neighborhood, according to his writings and city officials. The threat was “generalized” and not racial in nature, he said.

Among the dead was security guard Aaron Salter — a retired Buffalo police officer — who fired multiple shots at Gendron, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph ...

“My mother had just gone to see my father, as she does every day, in the nursing home and stopped at the Tops to buy just a few groceries. He looked after the store,” Yvette Mack, who had shopped at Tops earlier Saturday, said of Salter. “He did a good job you know. She was confirmed as a victim later in the day, Brown said. Gendron, confronted by police in the store’s vestibule, put a rifle to his neck but was convinced to drop it. New York State Police said troopers were called to the Conklin school on June 8, 2021, for a report that a 17-year-old student had made threatening statements. But after we pray — after we get up off of our knees — we’ve got to demand change. The market is located in a predominantly Black neighborhood. The Buffalo attack came just a month after a shooting on a Brooklyn subway wounded 10 and just over a year after 10 were killed in a shooting at a Colorado supermarket. All others, the document said, were “replacers” who should be eliminated by force or terror. I’m trying to bear witness but it’s just too much. The attack was intended to intimidate all non-white, non-Christian people and get them to leave the country, it said. “It’s just too much.