Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for Buffalo supermarket shooter
Payton Gendron, 20, is already serving a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole after he pleaded guilty to state charges. More
January 12, 2024
Buffalo Supermarket Shooting
Payton Gendron pleaded guilty to killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket in 2022 in an attack he planned for months.
Buffalo supermarket shooter could still get death sentence
Payton Gendron, sentenced to life in a NY State prison for killing 10 Black people, potentially faces the death penalty on federal hate crime charges. More
February 16, 2023
White supremacist gets life in prison for Buffalo massacre
White supremacist Payton Gendron, who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, was sentenced to life in prison without parole. More
February 15, 2023
Guilty plea possible from Buffalo gunman on federal charges
Lawyer says Payton Gendron, who plead guilty to killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, was willing plead guilty to if spared death penalty. More
December 9, 2022
Buffalo gunman pleads guilty in racist supermarket massacre
Payton Gendron plans to plead guilty on Monday to killing 10 people and wounding three others at a Buffalo supermarket, his attorneys say. More
November 28, 2022
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 Monday to federal hate crime charges that could be punishable by the death penalty. More
July 18, 2022
Buffalo market reopens to debate over healing, sensitivity
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — 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. Some also received gift cards Friday as the grocery store in Buffalo, New York, opened its doors. The store is part of an ever-growing list of public spaces and retail establishments where gun violence shattered a community’s way of living. Managers at Tops say they were confident that neighborhood residents overwhelmingly wanted and needed their most accessible supermarket to reopen. But some residents question whether opening two months after a tragedy is too soon. More
July 15, 2022
Case against accused Buffalo mass shooter proceeds in court
Attorneys for Payton Gendron, a white man charged with killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, were unable to secure a year's delay in state prosecution. More
July 7, 2022
Buffalo supermarket gunman in court on hate crime counts
The white man who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket made his first appearance in federal court on hate crime charges Thursday. More
June 16, 2022
Buffalo supermarket gunman charged with federal hate crimes
The white gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket has been charged with federal hate crimes, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday. More
June 15, 2022
Son of Buffalo victim pushes Congress: ‘What are you doing?’
Garnell Whitfield Jr., son of Ruth Whitfield, an 86-year-old woman killed when a gunman opened fire in a racist attack on Black shoppers in Buffalo, New York, challenged Congress to act against the nation's epidemic of gun violence. More
June 7, 2022
In court filing, Buffalo survivor faults gunman’s parents
An employee who survived a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket sought a court order to question the 18-year-old gunman's parents under oath in anticipation of filing a lawsuit against them. More
June 3, 2022
Families of Uvalde, Buffalo victims to testify in Congress
Parents of victims and survivors of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde will appear before a House committee next week in an effort to bring home the devastation of America's gun violence epidemic. More
June 3, 2022
Buffalo shooting suspect pleads not guilty to terror charge
Payton Gendron, the white man charged with carrying out a racist mass shooting that killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket, pleaded not guilty to hate-motivated domestic terrorism and other charges. More
June 2, 2022
Jury indicts Buffalo shooting suspect on terrorism charge
A grand jury charged Payton Gendron, the white 18-year-old accused of fatally shooting 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket with domestic terrorism motivated by hate and 10 counts of first-degree murder. More
June 1, 2022
Grand jury indicts man in Buffalo supermarket shooting
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket appeared briefly in court Thursday after a grand jury indicted him on a first-degree murder charge. More
May 19, 2022
Buffalo shooter let some people see plans just before attack
Shortly before he opened fire, the white gunman accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket allowed a small group of people to see his detailed plans for the attack, which he had been chronicling for months in a private, online diary. More
May 18, 2022
Online diary: Buffalo gunman plotted attack for months
The white gunman accused of massacring 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket wrote as far back as November about staging a livestreamed attack on African Americans, practiced shooting from his car and traveled hours from his home in March to scout out the store, according to detailed diary entries he appears to have posted online. More
May 16, 2022
Buffalo shooter’s prior threat, hospital stay face scrutiny
“This individual came here with the express purpose of taking as many Black lives as he possibly could,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said at a news conference Sunday. More
May 16, 2022