Ten people were gunned down at a Buffalo supermarket May 14 in a horrifying mass shooting that officials were quick to label as "pure evil" and racially motivated.
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Complete coverage: 10 killed, 3 wounded in mass shooting at Buffalo supermarket
The shooting stunned a community basking in a warm May afternoon, with shoppers filling the Tops in a predominantly Black neighborhood at 1275 Jefferson Ave.
Of the 13 people shot, 11 were Black and two were white, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said. All 10 of the victims who were killed were Black, said Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn Jr. The suspect is white. The killings are being investigated as a racist hate crime.
The accused gunman, Payton S. Gendron, pleaded guilty to 15 charges in State Supreme Court in Buffalo on Nov. 28, 2022. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Feb. 15, 2023.
The shooting is the worst in Buffalo history.
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Shortly after the holidays, defense attorneys for the man who pleaded guilty to 10 state murder charges in the racist mass shooting at Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue will begin to make their pitch to the Justice Department that his should be spared.
Trinetta Alston, a licensed practical nurse with Community Health Center of Buffalo, was named an honorary Tops employee, presented with a Tops uniform shirt and an employee badge to signify she was one of them. She has been working with Tops employees since May 16, just two days after the mass shooting at the Jefferson Avenue store.
Some in Conklin, a town with 5,200 residents near Binghamton – with 89% of them white – express sympathy for the parents of Payton Gendron. But they’re reluctant to talk publicly about them.
Zeneta Everhart called it an "honor" for the chance to represent Buffalo at Biden's speech.
In court Wednesday, before Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan hands down his sentence, the shooter will face the loved ones of those whose lives he took nine months ago.
Families of victims and survivors of the mass shooting at Tops on Jefferson Avenue tell the court about their loved ones, and how the hate crime May 14 affected their lives.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tripi said discussions are proceeding on whether to seek the death penalty against the convicted shooter.
Michelle Spight lost both her cousin, Margus Morrison, and her aunt, Pearl Young, in the 123-second terror attack that claimed 10 lives on May 14.
Wayne Jones tells a story that helps explain why he stood in front of a packed Erie County courtroom the other day, directly addressing the ma…
Tops will provide bus service that day to take shoppers to a different Tops store.
The attorneys for Gendron in his potential death penalty case in federal court filed a motion asking U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder to allow the attorneys for the families to have copies of a large portion of the evidence.
As the one-year mark of the massacre approached, Brown spoke with The Buffalo News about his experience on that day, about the pain he witnessed and the resilience the city showed.
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Byron W. Brown announced that the May 14th Memorial Commission is set to begin a public engagement campaign that will solicit the community's ideas for a memorial to honor the lives and legacies of the 10 Black men and women who died May 14.
While they're thankful to be alive, those that survived want people to understand that their lives were forever changed by what they witnessed that day.
Buffalo News Chief Photographer Derek Gee had the day off on May 14. But when word started spreading that multiple people had been shot at a b…
A mini-documentary created by Gee is now online at buffalonews.com and is the culmination of a year of coverage from him and a host of other Buffalo News journalists.
In our church we have spent a lot of time in the last several years learning about racism.
On June 10, an event remembering the victims of the May 14, 2022 mass shooting and entertainer Glenn Brooks will be held at 1 p.m. at the Historic Concordia Cemetery, 438 Walden Ave. “A Tribute to the Life of Glenn Brooks” will be performed by local dancers from the Buffalo State College Dance Department and the Buffalo City Ballet. “A Community Memorial Service of Honor” in memory of the victims of last year’s mass shooting, will follow.
One of the suits alleges that “unlawful and irresponsible actions taken by numerous bad actors” enabled the shooter to “commit a hateful massacre.”
More so than those in other years, the most impactful stories of the past 12 months will reverberate far into the future. Two, in particular – The Tops mass shooting and the Christmastime blizzard – will stick with us – for the sheer horror.
The raw emotions of the May 14 massacre at the Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue spilled out into a packed courtroom on Wednesday, Feb. 15,…
Chardanay Young-Ford, interim director of the Buffalo United Resiliency Center, is among the mental health counselors who, for the past year, have been working with victims' families as well as Tops associates and customers who survived the worst mass shooting in Buffalo history.
Massey's siblings pay tribute to their sister in the simplicity of beautifying their neighborhood.
"This event is now part of our history," said John Persons, Tops Markets president and chief operating officer. "We decided fairly early on that we needed to make some good out of this, we needed to point in a good direction, we needed to center around the right purpose."
A year after the May 14 racist massacre at Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue, the Buffalo community is still reeling and healing. Here are our …
Lawyers for Buffalo mass shooter Payton Gendron want a magistrate judge replaced in his federal case, saying they want their motions, if any, to wait until U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland decides whether to pursue the death penalty.