Buffalo mass shooting by a white supremacist kills 10 Black people while they were shopping at the Tops Friendly Market supermarket
AGN.News Team
May 14, 2022
BUFFALO (AGN.News) – The United States continues to experience mass shootings and killings of the innocent. In Buffalo, New York, an 18 year old self-professed white supremacist lone gunman traveled over 200 miles to the Tops Friendly Market and killed 10 Black shoppers. Another Black person and two white people were wounded.
Buffalo has several nicknames, one of which is: “City of Good Neighbors”. On Saturday, May 14, 2022, a gunman opened fire in a Tops Friendly Market supermarket in the City of Buffalo. Buffalo, the “City of Good Neighbors” experienced a “community’s worst nightmare”, says Mayor Byron Brown.
On Saturday afternoon, a white gunman in body armor killed 10 Black shoppers and workers at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Another Black person and two white people were wounded. The gunman opened fire at around 2:30 p.m. Saturday outside Tops Friendly Market, a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in the western New York city.
The mayor said “It was straight-up, racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community, outside of the city of good neighbors.” He said the community is “hurting and seething” in the wake of a shooting that killed ten people.
Local police is calling this a racially motivated hate crime. This crime was not committed by a local Buffalo resident, but by the suspected shooter, a self-described white supremacist, name Payton Gendron, 18, who drove more than 200 miles from Conklin, New York to carry out the attack, who is now in custody, police say.
Speaking at the National Peace Officers’ Memorial service at the U.S. Capitol, President Joe Biden said, “We must all work together to address the hate that remains a stain on the soul of America”. The President and First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden are going to visit Buffalo on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 to “grieve with the community”.
The world community and local residents, though grieving, have come together with shared love and respect, kindness, goodness, messages of support, condolences and community support for one another, including schools officials, law enforcement agencies, community groups, church leaders, NGOs, and many other groups and organizations, so the City of Buffalo healing process can begin.
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