Buffalo

Vigils are planned for Sunday to remember the victims, including a security guard who died trying to stop the shooting.

It unfolded in a largely Black neighborhood in Buffalo, and 11 of the people shot were Black, officials said. Mr. Gendron wrote that he was inspired by the perpetrators of other white supremacist acts of violence, naming Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black parishioners in South Carolina in 2015, among other gunmen. And he had carefully studied the layout of the grocery store, writing that he would shoot a security guard near the entrance before walking through aisles and firing upon Black shoppers, shooting them twice in the chest when he could. 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. The Anti-Defamation League has said it was commonly used in Nazi Germany, and has now been adopted by white supremacists and neo-Nazis. “I don’t think anyone here in the city of Buffalo thought that something like this could ever happen, would ever happen.” Ten people were killed and three others wounded; 11 of the shooting victims were Black. The police have yet to identify victims. He then put the gun to his own neck, said the police commissioner, Joseph A. Gramaglia, at a news conference. Shortly after Mr. Gendron was captured, a manifesto believed to have been posted online by the gunman emerged, riddled with racist, anti-immigrant views that claimed white Americans were at risk of being replaced by people of color. And his preferred victims seemed clear as well: All told, 11 of the people shot were Black and two were white, the authorities said. His manifesto, which he posted online shortly before the killings, contained old strains of white supremacy and xenophobia.

Described by Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia as “a hero in our eyes,” Aaron Salter Jr. was the security guard on duty when the gunman began his ...

Saturday’s shooting had the same number of fatalities as a shooting by a transit system employee last May at a light-rail facility in San Jose, according to the archive. When police arrived at the store, Gendron put a gun to his neck but was ultimately persuaded to surrender, Gramaglia said. In February, six people were killed in Corsicana, Tex., when a man targeted members of his family. Until then, the deadliest shooting this year took place on April 3 in downtown Sacramento, where six died and a dozen were injured after multiple shooters fired on a stretch of bars and nightclubs. “She could have probably done a number of other things with her life and with her talents, but she chose to use them on us,” Garnell said. “We have to rally as a family around my father and make sure that he’s well cared for,” he said. Salter was inspired to undertake that project during a 2011 spike in gas prices, he said in an interview. After surrendering to police, Gendron was charged with first-degree murder. In a few years, he predicted, scientists and engineers would find that cars could run on water. On the way home, she stopped at Tops Friendly Markets, where she and nine others were fatally shot, authorities said. “She was his angel.” Eleven of the 13 people were Black.

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.

Como un "crimen de odio por motivos raciales" ha sido calificado por las autoridades un ataque armado ocurrido este sábado en un área predominantemente ...

Es como Armageddon".La gobernadora de Nueva York, Kathy Hochul, describió el incidente como un "acto despreciable de violencia" y dijo que viajaría a Buffalo para ayudar con la respuesta. Se refirió al crimen como una "operación de estilo militar" contra civiles que estaban comprando víveres. y luego entró en la tienda y comenzó a disparar de nuevo", aseguró el testigo Grady Lewis ante un grupo de periodistas. El presidente de EE.UU., Joe Biden, fue informado sobre el tiroteo. "El odio no debe tener puerto seguro. "Uno estaba justo al lado de la puerta. Y luego le disparó a otra mujer que estaba poniendo el mercado en su auto. Shonnell Harris, gerente de Tops, le dijo a periódico local Buffalo News que escuchó cerca de 70 disparos y que se cayó varias veces mientras corría por la tienda hacia la salida trasera. De las 13 víctimas que dejó su ataque, 11 eran personas negras. El supermercado se encuentra en un vecindario predominantemente negro, al norte de Buffalo. El área circundante es principalmente residencial. Gendron fue presentado en la corte posteriormente donde se declaró no culpable. "Lo vi dispararle a esta mujer", dijo Crofton.

Las autoridades manejan la hipótesis de que el odio racial fue el motivo de la matanza en un supermercado en una zona de gran población negra en Buffalo, ...

La policía de Buffalo se negó a comentar sobre un documento que aparentemente explica las creencias racistas, antiinmigrantes y antisemitas del atacante, incluido el deseo de expulsar de Estados Unidos a todos los que no sean de ascendencia europea. Fue procesado más tarde el sábado por un cargo de asesinato y compareció ante un juez con un overol de papel. El tiroteo masivo perturbó aún más a una nación asolada por las tensiones raciales, la violencia armada y una serie de crímenes de odio. Las autoridades manejan la hipótesis de que el ataque se debió al odio racial. El ataque de Buffalo se produjo apenas un mes después de que un tiroteo en el metro de Brooklyn hirió a 10 y poco más de un año después de que 10 murieran en un tiroteo en un supermercado de Colorado. “Esto es demasiado.

Los dos funcionarios no tenían permitido hablar públicamente sobre el incidente y por ello solicitaron mantenerse en el anonimato. La policía y un vocero del ...

Los detectives no han publicado información sobre por qué creen que el hombre acusado de ese ataque eligió el supermercado. El agresor ingresó al supermercado con un fusil y abrió fuego, dijo uno de los funcionarios. La policía de Buffalo había informado poco antes que el presunto agresor, cuya identidad no ha sido dada a conocer, fue detenido.

The Buffalo Police Department said a suspect is in custody.

It’s centrally located to several area colleges, including Canisius College and Buffalo State College as well as a number of area churches. Brown said it was “a day of great pain for our community.” Four of those killed were store employees and six were customers, law enforcement officials said. The shooter is in custody. Gramaglia said that 11 of the 13 people shot were Black. BREAKING: BPD on scene of a mass shooting at the Tops in the 1200 block of Jefferson Avenue. Police say multiple people have been struck by gunfire.

Officials said the suspected gunman traveled several hours from his home in the Southern Tier to carry out the Buffalo attack.

We appreciate the quick response of local law enforcement and are providing all available resources to assist authorities in the ongoing investigation." "There is compelling evidence to believe that this was pre-planned," the congressman said. The shooter "worked his way through the store" firing at others, and in the store's lobby was confronted by Buffalo police. The store's security guard, a retired Buffalo police officer, was among those killed at the scene. None of the shooting victims were identified by police. A retired Buffalo police officer working in the store as a security guard confronted the shooter and shot him. Her cousin hid in a freezer inside the store and was not injured, she said. She retrieved her phone from her car and called her cousin, who was also inside the store when gunfire erupted. "This is the worst nightmare that any community can face," said Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown. "And we are hurting and we are seething right now as a community. "A lot of people got away, thank God." He shot four people in the parking lot, three of whom died at the scene. Eleven of the 13 shooting victims were Black.

El hombre de 18 años que presuntamente disparó y mató a 10 personas en un supermercado de Buffalo estaba motivado por el odio, dijeron las autoridades.

La compañía no respondió de inmediato a las preguntas de seguimiento sobre si el sospechoso estaba disparando cuando se detuvo la transmisión en vivo. El autor del manifiesto dice que compró munición durante algún tiempo, pero que no se tomó en serio la planificación del ataque hasta enero. Se ve a la persona en el espejo retrovisor usando un casco y se escucha decir: "Tengo que hacerlo", antes de detenerse frente al supermercado. Esta es una investigación activa y se pueden presentar cargos adicionales”, afirmó Flynn en un comunicado. En su comunicado de prensa, Flynn dijo que el sospechoso disparó a cuatro personas fuera del supermercado, tres de ellas murieron. Conklin está a unas tres horas y media en automóvil desde Buffalo.

Authorities say the suspect who fatally shot 10 people and injured three others at a Buffalo supermarket Saturday traveled from another New York county ...

Four of the people shot were store employees, he said. When police arrived, the suspect put his gun to his neck but later dropped the gun and took off some of his gear, he added. "He was very heavily armed," the commissioner said. A portion of the document is written in question-and-answer form. A security guard inside the store who was a retired Buffalo police officer shot the suspect. "The shooter traveled hours from outside this community to perpetrate this crime on the people of Buffalo, a day when people were enjoying the sunshine, enjoying family, enjoying friends," Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said at a Saturday evening news conference. "You have now a White ... assailant in a (majority) Black community. Three of those people died while another is expected to survive, Gramaglia said. Why did he choose this market?" Gendron pleaded not guilty to the charge. Two victims were White, Gramaglia said. People's lives being snuffed out in an instant for no reason."

A massacre at a Buffalo supermarket was the deadliest in the U.S. this year.

Of the 13 people who were shot, 11 were Black and two were white. The Cannes Film Festival begins this week. “Top Gun: Maverick” will premiere 36 years after the original. By then, the police had arrived, and he briefly put a gun to his neck before he began removing tactical gear as a form of surrender and the police tackled him. But the recovery process is extremely painful, as documented in this photo essay. It’s the magazine’s health issue, all about body modifications. He was arrested at the store and pleaded not guilty in a brief court appearance. He went on to stalk victims throughout the store; “bodies were everywhere,” one witness said. Four worked at the Tops grocery. The view is known as “replacement theory” and was once linked to the far-right fringe, but it has become increasingly mainstream. Around 2:30 p.m., as shoppers filled the Tops supermarket, the suspect arrived wearing body armor, tactical gear and a helmet with a video camera attached. A gunman embracing a white supremacist ideology opened fire yesterday afternoon at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo, killing 10 people and wounding three more.

Ten people were killed and three wounded after a racist gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York on Saturday. The gunman, Payton Gendron, ...

“A racially motivated hate crime is abhorrent to the very fabric of this nation,” President Joe Biden said in a statement on Saturday night. On Sunday, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said that the gunman had been in Buffalo — which is a three-hour drive from where he lived — for at least a day prior to the shooting. Police said Salter was armed and shot the gunman in an attempt to stop the rampage, but the bullet was stopped by his body armor, and he then killed Salter. Governor Hochul, a Buffalo native who flew to the city from Albany after the attack, said at a Saturday night press conference that “there is no depth to my outrage” over the attack. The three people who were wounded were taken to Erie County Medical Center; as of Saturday night, one had been released and the other two were in stable condition. Zaire Goodman, 20, was one of the people wounded in the attack. [The manifesto] was riddled with racist, anti-immigrant views that claimed white Americans were at risk of being replaced by people of color, an ideology known as the“great replacement” theory. A store employee who was able to run and escape through the supermarket’s back exit told the Buffalo News that she thought she heard as many as 70 shots. Of the 13 people killed or wounded in the attack, 11 were Black and two were white. Officers then convinced him to drop the weapon, after which he was tackled by police and taken into custody. The gunman then went inside the store and continued the massacre. An armed security guard fired on the shooter, but the bullet was stopped by Gendron’s body armor, and the gunman shot and killed the guard.

El joven que mató a tiros a 10 personas en un supermercado de Buffalo había estudiado la composición demográfica de la zona y quería atacar un lugar donde ...

Fue procesado más tarde el sábado por un cargo de asesinato y compareció ante un juez con un overol de papel. Los padres están cooperando, informó una fuente. Pero después de rezar, después de levantarnos de nuestras rodillas, tenemos que exigir cambio, tenemos que exigir justicia”, expresó la secretaria de Justicia del estado de Nueva York Letitia James en una ceremonia en una iglesia en Buffalo el domingo en la mañana. Sin no hay control, añadió, alguien podría tratar de imitar el ataque en Buffalo. “Esto es demasiado. Agentes de la Policía Estatal de Nueva York acudieron a la escuela en Conklin el 8 de junio del 2021, al recibir una denuncia de que un estudiante de 17 años había proferido amenazas.

BUFFALO, Nueva York, EE.UU. (AP) — Las autoridades manejan la hipótesis de que el odio racial fue el motivo de la matanza en un supermercado en una zona de ...

Fue procesado más tarde el sábado por un cargo de asesinato y compareció ante un juez con un overol de papel. Los padres están cooperando, informó una fuente. Pero después de rezar, después de levantarnos de nuestras rodillas, tenemos que exigir cambio, tenemos que exigir justicia”, expresó la secretaria de Justicia del estado de Nueva York Letitia James en una ceremonia en una iglesia en Buffalo el domingo en la mañana. Sin no hay control, añadió, alguien podría tratar de imitar el ataque en Buffalo. “Esto es demasiado. Agentes de la Policía Estatal de Nueva York acudieron a la escuela en Conklin el 8 de junio del 2021, al recibir una denuncia de que un estudiante de 17 años había proferido amenazas.

Much about the 10 people who were fatally shot, who were not immediately named by the police, was still unknown. But the victims included: Ruth Whitfield, 88: ...

Mr. Jones was her only child, and she had six grandchildren. “She always was the center of attention and made the whole room smile and laugh.” Celestine Chaney, 65: Ms. Chaney was killed during the shooting, her son, Wayne Jones, 48, said. 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. In recent years, she had taken on caring for her husband, who was in a nursing home. “She was a religious woman who cared deeply for her family,” Cassietta Whitfield said.

The Buffalo supermarket shooting suspect threatened a shooting at his high school and was sent for mental health treatment, an official says.

“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.

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.

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.

Aaron Salter was one of 10 people killed in the mass shooting. Jeffrey T. Barnes/Reuters. A retired police officer is ...

"He took on a responsibility to protect the customers and the employees in the store," Gramaglia said. The suspect then dropped to his knees and began taking off his tactical gear, and officers took him into custody, Gramaglia said. "He came in, he went towards the gunfire. Early indications are the shooter may have possessed extremist beliefs cultivated online, law enforcement sources told ABC News. He went towards the fight." Salter was one of 10 people killed in the mass shooting.

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.

Authorities in Buffalo say the alleged gunman had threatened a shooting at his school in 2021. He was then sent for a mental health evaluation that lasted a ...

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The man accused of killing 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket was sent for a psychiatric evaluation when he was still in high school but soon fell off ...

Mr. Donald said he did a background check on Mr. Gendron before he sold him the gun. “He didn’t stand out, because if he did, I would have never sold him the gun,” Mr. Donald said. Law enforcement officials said he plotted the attack over several months and posted a 180-page manifesto online explaining why he committed the shootings and describing his meticulous preparations. The authorities then try to make a reasoned call. Ms. Williams said the last time she had seen Mr. Gendron was at graduation. Some recalled watching Mr. Gendron play basketball in the driveway with his two brothers, and some even had attended his front-yard graduation party last year. The law is not used often. “I knew he had an interest in guns, but where we grew up that wasn’t uncommon. Ms. Williams, 19, said Mr. Gendron favored online coursework even as his classmates returned to campus. He claimed to be joking, the official said. But two officers persuaded him to drop his weapon and surrender. There was little movement at the light-blue, two-story house with black shutters and neatly trimmed shrubs, save for agents pacing the driveway.