Buffalo supermarket gunman charged with federal hate crimes, could face death penalty
The criminal complaint filed Wednesday against Payton Gendron coincided with a visit to Buffalo by Attorney General Merrick Garland. The attorney general was expected to address the federal charges and meet with the families of the people who were killed.
The attack, at Tops Friendly Market, also left three survivors - one Black, two white. Ballistics evidence indicated that Gendron fired approximately 60 shots during the attack, according to an affidavit filed with the criminal complaint. The affidavit also includes detailed accounts of Gendron's plot to attack the store, which he documented in detail in an online diary, and the attack itself, which he live streamed on social media.
Gendron drove more than 200 miles from his home in a nearly all-white town near the New York-Pennsylvania border to a predominantly Black part of Buffalo. There, authorities say, he mowed down shoppers and workers using an AR-15-style rifle, wearing body armor to protect himself and livestreaming the carnage from a helmet-mounted camera.
Federal authorities had said they were considering hate crime charges in the killings, which compounded the unabating toll of gun violence in the United States. The U.S. Senate followed on June 12 with a bipartisan agreement on more modest federal gun curbs and stepped-up efforts to improve school safety and mental health programs.
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