Buffalo supermarket shooting

Gunman Payton Gendron reads an apology to the court at his sentencing before Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, in Buffalo, N.Y. Gendron, a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday after relatives of his victims confronted him with the pain and rage caused by his racist attack. (Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP, Pool)

White supremacist gets life in prison for Buffalo massacre

A white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket has been sentenced to life parole.

FILE - Payton Gendron is led into the courtroom for a hearing at Erie County Court in Buffalo, N.Y., on May 19, 2022. Gendron, a white gunman who targeted a Buffalo supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood, plans to plead guilty on Monday, Nov. 28, to killing 10 people and wounding three others, according to lawyers representing victims’ relatives. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Buffalo gunman pleads guilty in racist supermarket massacre

FILE - Payton Gendron is led into the courtroom for a hearing at Erie County Court, in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, May 19, 2022. Gendron faces charges in the May 14 fatal shooting at a supermarket. Relatives of those killed and wounded in a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket in May have been told the gunman will plead guilty to state charges next week, a lawyer for the families said Thursday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Buffalo mass shooter to plead guilty, victims’ lawyers say

FILE - A group prays at the site of a memorial for the victims of the Buffalo supermarket shooting outside the Tops Friendly Market on Saturday, May 21, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. The victims of the mass shooting will be honored with a permanent memorial in the neighborhood. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Byron Brown on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, announced the creation of a commission tasked with planning and overseeing construction of a monument in East Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)

Memorial will honor Buffalo supermarket shooting victims

FILE - A Lake Forest, Ill., police officer walks down Central Ave in Highland Park, Ill., on Monday, July 4, 2022, after a shooter fired on the Chicago northern suburb's Fourth of July parade. Chicago is one of the nation's gun violence hotspots and a seemingly ideal place to employ Illinois' "red flag” law that allows police to step in and take firearms away from people who threaten to kill. But amid more than 8,500 shootings resulting in 1,800 deaths since 2020, the law was used there just four times. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune via AP, File)

Red flag laws get little use as shootings, gun deaths soar

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Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia hugs Leah Holton-Pope, senior advisor to New York Assembly Majority Leader Peoples-Stokes prior to a ceremony to honor the victims on the two-month anniversary of the attack by a racist gunman at a memorial outside the store in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, July 14, 2022. (Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP)

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Store associates are handing single carnations to customers as they enter the newly reopening Tops Friendly Market where 10 Black people were slain by a white gunman.

FILE — Police walk outside the Tops grocery store May 15, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. The white gunman charged with killing 10 Black people in a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket is scheduled for arraignment in federal court on Monday, July 18, 2022, on an indictment that could make him eligible for the death penalty if he is found guilty. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)

Buffalo supermarket shooter arraigned on federal charges

The white gunman charged with killing 10 Black people in a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges punishable by the death penalty.

Cariol Horne, 54, places a rose on the fence outside the Tops Friendly Market on Thursday, July 14, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. The Buffalo supermarket where 10 Black people were killed by a white gunman is set to reopen its doors, two months after the racist attack. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex)

Buffalo supermarket to reopen 2 months after racist shooting

The names of the 10 Black people massacred by a white gunman were read aloud outside the Buffalo supermarket where they died, two months after the racist attack.

FILE - Police secure an area around a supermarket where several people were killed in a shooting, Saturday, May 14, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. New York’s new law barring sales of bullet-resistant vests to most civilians doesn't cover the type of armor worn by the gunman who killed 10 people at the Buffalo supermarket, a gap that could limit its effectiveness in deterring future military-style assaults. (Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP, File)

Case against accused Buffalo mass shooter proceeds in court

Attorneys for a white man charged with killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket were unable to secure a year’s delay in state prosecution.

Different levels of body armor sit on display at 221B Tactical headquarters, Tuesday, June 14, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

New body armor rules in NY miss vest worn by Buffalo killer

A new law barring sales of bullet-resistant vests to most civilians in New York doesn’t cover the type of armor worn by the gunman who killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket.

Attorney General Merrick Garland. visits the Tops Friendly Market grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, the site of a May 14 mass shooting in which 10 Black people were killed. Garland was in Buffalo to announce federal hate crime charges against the 18-year-old shooter, Payton Gendron. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)

Buffalo supermarket gunman in court on hate crime counts

The white man who shot to death 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket made his first appearance in federal court on hate crime charges.

Attorney General Merrick Garland holds a news conference on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 in Buffalo, N.Y. Payton Gendron, the white gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket was charged Wednesday with federal hate crimes that could potentially carry a death penalty. (US Network via AP, Pool)

Buffalo supermarket gunman charged with federal hate crimes

The gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket has been charged with federal hate crimes that could potentially carry a death penalty.

Actor Matthew McConaughey holds a picture or Alithia Ramirez, 10, who was killed in the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, as he speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, June 7, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Actor McConaughey calls for gun legislation at White House

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Garnell Whitfield, Jr., of Buffalo, N.Y., whose mother, Ruth Whitfield, was killed in the Buffalo Tops supermarket mass shooting, wipes away tears as he testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on domestic terrorism, Tuesday, June 7, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Son of Buffalo victim pushes Congress: ‘What are you doing?’

The son of an 86-year-old woman killed in the racist Buffalo mass shooting is calling on Congress to act against domestic terrorism.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff visit a memorial near the site of the Buffalo supermarket shooting after attending a memorial service for Ruth Whitfield, one of the victims of the shooting, Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

In court filing, Buffalo survivor faults gunman’s parents

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — An employee who survived a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket sought a court order Friday to question the 18-year-old gunman’s parents under oath in anticipation of filing a lawsuit against them.

FILE - People pray outside the scene of a shooting where police are responding at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., May 15, 2022. When police confronted Payton Gendron, the white man suspected of killing 10 Black people at the supermarket, he had an AR-15-style rifle and was cloaked in body armor. Yet officers talked to Gendron, convinced him to put down his weapon and arrested him without firing a single shot. Some people are asking why that type of treatment hasn't been afforded to Black people in encounters where they were killed over minor traffic infractions, or no infractions at all. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Buffalo gunman pleads not guilty to domestic terror charge

The white gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket has pleaded not guilty to hate-motivated domestic terrorism and other charges.

Payton Gendron is led into the courtroom for a hearing at Erie County Court, in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, May 19, 2022. Gendron faces charges in the May 14 fatal shooting at a supermarket. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Buffalo supermarket gunman indicted on terror, hate charge

The white man accused of killing 10 Black people in a racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket has been indicted by a grand jury on a state domestic terrorism and hate crime charge that would carry a mandatory sentence of life in prison.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a memorial service for Ruth Whitfield, a victim of the Buffalo supermarket shooting, at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

VP Harris tells Buffalo mourners: ‘We will come together’

The last of the victims of a gunman’s racist attack on Black people at a Buffalo supermarket has been memorialized at a funeral service that became a call to action.

In this March 23, 2021, photo, a man leaves a bouquet on a police cruiser parked outside the Boulder Police Department after an officer was one of the victims of a mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colo. The suspects in the most recent shooting sprees found it relatively easy to get their guns. The suspect in the shooting at a Boulder supermarket was convicted of assaulting a high school classmate but still got a gun.(AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Mass shooters exploited gun laws, loopholes before carnage

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In this March 23, 2021, photo, a man leaves a bouquet on a police cruiser parked outside the Boulder Police Department after an officer was one of the victims of a mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colo. The suspects in the most recent shooting sprees found it relatively easy to get their guns. The suspect in the shooting at a Boulder supermarket was convicted of assaulting a high school classmate but still got a gun.(AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

22 mass shootings. 374 dead. Here’s where the guns came from

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FILE - A group prays at the site of a memorial for the victims of the Buffalo supermarket shooting outside the Tops Friendly Market on Saturday, May 21, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. Funeral services are set for Friday for three of those killed: Geraldine Talley, Andre Mackniel and Margus Morrison. They are among the 10 people killed and three wounded May 14 when a white gunman opened fire on shoppers and employees at a Tops Friendly Market. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)

3 more funerals for Buffalo victims in week of goodbyes

A week filled with goodbyes continues for family and friends of victims of the racist attack on a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

FILE - Laurette Eugene assembles a body armor vest at the Point Blank Body Armor factory in Pompano Beach, Fla., Sept. 19, 2014. When a shooter attacked a supermarket in Buffalo, New York,May 14, 2022, its security guard tried to stop him. At least one of the guard's shots hit the gunman, but it didn’t stop the deadly rampage because the gunman was wearing body armor. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)

Buffalo is latest mass shooting by gunman wearing body armor

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A person holds a program for the funeral service for Aaron Salter Jr. at The Chapel on Crosspoint on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Getzville, N.Y. Salter Jr. was killed in the Buffalo supermarket shooting on May 14. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex)

Officer in Buffalo supermarket attack honored at funeral

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This undated photo provided by Charon Reed shows Celestine Chaney, who was killed in Saturday's shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y. (Charon Reed via AP)

Celestine Chaney, Buffalo supermarket victim, mourned

Family and friends of Celestine Chaney are remembering her as resilient and caring as they say their final good-byes.

This photo dated Oct. 24, 2011 shows Katherine Massey walking near the corner of Elmwood and Tupper in Buffalo, N.Y. Massey was one of the victims killed in the grocery store shooting in Buffalo on Saturday. Her sister calls her "a beautiful soul." {Robert Kirkham/The Buffalo News via AP)

Buffalo supermarket victim Kat Massey, 72, laid to rest

Katherine “Kat” Massey has been laid to rest as funerals continue for the victims of the racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket.

FILE - Children walk hand-in-hand near the scene of a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., May 15, 2022. The shooting rampage at a Buffalo supermarket, carried out by an 18-year-old who was flagged for making a threatening comment at his high school the year before, highlights concerns over whether schools are adequately supporting and screening students. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

School counselors sound cry for help after Buffalo shooting

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FILE - Children walk hand in hand in a street near the scene of a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. Long before an 18-year-old avowed white supremacist inflicted terror at a Buffalo supermarket, the city's Black neighborhoods, like many others around the nation, had been dealing with wounds that are generations old. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Buffalo shooting’s wounds need a strong salve, residents say

Long before an 18-year-old avowed white supremacist inflicted terror at a Buffalo supermarket, the city’s Black neighborhoods had been dealing with wounds that are generations old.

A group prays at the site of a memorial for the victims of the Buffalo supermarket shooting outside the Tops Friendly Market on Saturday, May 21, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. Tops was encouraging people to join its stores in a moment of silence to honor the shooting victims Saturday at 2:30 p.m., the approximate time of the attack a week earlier. Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown also called for 123 seconds of silence from 2:28 p.m. to 2:31 p.m., followed by the ringing of church bells 13 times throughout the city to honor the 10 people killed and three wounded. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex)

Buffalo shooting victim laid to rest; city marks 1 week

A 32-year-old woman who was the youngest of the 10 Black people killed at a Buffalo supermarket was remembered at her funeral for her love of family and friends and “smile that could light up a room.”

FILE - A person pays his respects at a makeshift memorial outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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FILE - People pray outside the scene of a shooting where police are responding at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., May 15, 2022. When police confronted Payton Gendron, the white man suspected of killing 10 Black people at the supermarket, he had an AR-15-style rifle and was cloaked in body armor. Yet officers talked to Gendron, convinced him to put down his weapon and arrested him without firing a single shot. Some people are asking why that type of treatment hasn't been afforded to Black people in encounters where they were killed over minor traffic infractions, or no infractions at all. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Handling of Buffalo suspect spurs talk of uneven restraint

When police confronted the white man suspected of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, he was the very poster boy for armed and dangerous.

A person visits a makeshift memorial near the scene of Saturday's shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, Thursday, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Buffalo families begin to eulogize victims of racist attack

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The first of several funerals for 10 Black people massacred at a Buffalo supermarket was planned for Friday, one day after victims’ families called on the nation to confront the threat of white supremacist violence.