Morrison, 52 Heyward Patterson, 67 Geraldine Talley, 62 Ruth Whitfield, 86 and Pearl Young, 77. Drury, 32 Andre Mackniel, 53 Katherine Massey, 72 Margus D. In addition to Salter, the people fatally shot were: Celestine Chaney, 65 Roberta A. One of them, 55-year-old Aaron Salter Jr., was a former Buffalo Police lieutenant who was working as a security guard when he confronted the shooter. Thirteen people-eleven of them Black and two white-were shot, ten fatally. After his arrest, the suspect made disturbing statements regarding his motive and state of mind. īy 2:36 p.m., the shooter had gone to the front of the building, where patrol officers were able to talk him into dropping his gun after he reportedly aimed it at his neck. At another point, the shooter aimed his gun at a white person behind a checkout counter but apologized and did not shoot. The shooter returned fire at Salter, who died at the scene. Due to the shooter's body armor, Salter's bullet did not stop him. At some point, an armed security guard, former Buffalo Police Department officer Aaron Salter Jr., shot at him. Other customers were hidden by employees in the milk cooler and said the shooter shot through the coolers but the milk cartons stopped the bullets.

Many employees and customers used the store's break room to hide from the shooter and barricaded the door with a heavy desk. According to a law enforcement source, the shooter yelled racial slurs during the incident. He then entered the store, shooting eight more people and killing six. The shooter shot four people in the parking lot, killing three. At 2:34 p.m., a dispatcher started informing responding officers of an active shooter situation at the store. The first responding officers and firefighters arrived a minute later and reported bodies lying outside the building. At 2:31 p.m., Buffalo police received a call reporting shots fired at the store. As he approached the scene, he was recorded on his livestream saying 'just got to go for it'. In his car, he had a Savage Arms Axis XP hunting rifle and a Mossberg 500 shotgun. He was wearing body armor and a military grade helmet, carrying a modified Bushmaster XM-15 rifle, and a head-mounted camera, through which he livestreamed the attack on the online service Twitch. EDT ( UTC−04:00), the shooter arrived at the Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue, in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. Governor Kathy Hochul promised policy changes in the state as a result of the attack, while condemning the shooter and consoling the victims' families. The attack has been described as an act of domestic terrorism, and the incident is being investigated as motivated by racism. He voiced support for the far-right ' Great Replacement' conspiracy theory in the context of a ' white genocide'. Gendron is reported to have written a manifesto, describing himself as an ethno-nationalist supporting white supremacy and motivated to commit political violence. He formally entered a plea of 'not guilty' on May 19, 2022.

Gendron, was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder.

The accused, identified as 18-year-old Payton S.

The shooter livestreamed part of the attack on Twitch, but the livestream was shut down by the service in under two minutes. Ten Black people were killed and three other people were injured. On May 14, 2022, a mass shooting occurred in Buffalo, New York, United States, at a Tops Friendly Markets store, a supermarket in the East Side neighborhood.

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