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US Mass Shootings: Buffalo Demented KILLER Now on Suicide Watch
US Mass Shooting -White Supremacist Shot 13 -10 DEAD at New York Supermarket
White supremacist 18, DENIES killing ten people - including hero cop who tried to stop him - as he is arraigned after livestreaming mass shooting at Buffalo supermarket in black area with 'n****r' scrawled on his rifle
Daily Mail UK.15 MAY 2022.
White supremacist Payton Gendron, 18, was arrested for shooting 10 people dead in a supermarket in a predominantly-black area of upstate New York, and live-streamed the horrific massacre. Gendron, scrawled the n-word on his rifle before carrying out Saturday's massacre at Tops Friendly Supermarket in Buffalo.
A total of 13 people were shot, 10 fatally. The other three are being treated for their injuries, and cops say 11 of those shot were black. The gunman lived-streamed the assault as he opened fire inside the Tops Friendly Supermarket, at 1275 Jefferson Avenue, at about 2.30pm. Gendron, filmed wearing a military uniform, has been taken into custody by the Buffalo Police Department. He has been described as 'heavily-armed.'
Eric County District Attorney John Flynn says the shooter could be charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder as early as Saturday night. Gendron lived hours away from the scene of the massacre. He also refused to comment on an unconfirmed manifesto said to have been written by the shooter, which has been circulating online. President Joe Biden is keeping close track of the developments in the tragedy, according to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Payton traveled from his home in Conklin, New York, to carry out the atrocity. He lived there with his father Paul (pictured unpixellated) and mom Pamela, pictured in red, both of whom are engineers for the New York Department of Transportation
Gendron shot four people outside the store, three fatally, the commissioner said. He then went into the supermarket where he exchanged gunfire with Salter. The ex-cop shot at him multiple times but the bullets hit the shooter's body arm and left him unfazed, the commissioner said.
Gendron then killed killed Salter.
A further six victims are believed to have been shot dead inside.
Salter's son, Aaron Salter Jr., hailed his father for trying to stop the maniac gunman.
'Today is a shock,' he told the Daily Beast. 'I'm pretty sure he saved some lives today. He's a hero.'
The killings were broadcast live on streaming site Twitch, although the clip was removed within two minutes of its posting.
Ruth Whitfield, the 86-year-old mother of retired Buffalo fire commissioner Garnell W. Witfield, was also killed during the shooting spree.
'My mom was the consummate mom. mother was a mother to the motherless. She was a blessing to all of us. She loved God and taught us to do the same thing,' the former commissioner told the Buffalo News.
Ruth Witfield, 86, the mother of former Buffalo fire commissioner Garnell Witfield was also killed in the murder spree
New York Governor Kathy Hochul blasted Gendron's 'demented' killings and called for a crackdown on social media firms, who she said effectively acted as an 'accomplice' by letting mass-shooters like Gendron glorify their crimes.
President Joe Biden expressed his condolences to the families who lost loved-ones in the attack and denounced the white supremacy as 'repugnant.'
'Tonight, we grieve for the families of ten people whose lives were senselessly taken and everyone who is suffering the physical and emotional wounds of this horrific shooting,' Biden said. 'A racially motivated hate crime is abhorrent to the very fabric of this nation. Any act of domestic terrorism, including an act perpetrated in the name of a repugnant white nationalist ideology, is antithetical to everything we stand for in America. Hate must have no safe harbor. We must do everything in our power to end hate-fueled domestic terrorism.'
'This was pure evil, it was straight up a racially motivated hate crime,' the Erie County Sheriff John Garcia said.
Eleven of the 13 victims were black.
Before the shooting Gendron allegedly posted a 180-page manifesto online espousing the paranoid white supremacist theory that people of color were replacing white people in America. He also refers to other mass shootings carried out to further racist ideology like Dylan Roof, who who killed nine people in a black church in South Carolina and New Zealand lunatic Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 people in mosque.
The suspected gunman, killed ten people and wounded three others in a Buffalo supermarket
'This is the worst nightmare that any community can face, and we are hurting and we are seething right now,' Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said at a news conference. 'The depth of pain that families are feeling and that all of us are feeling right now cannot even be explained.'
The young man drove hours from the white suburban town of Conklin, just outside Binghamton, to the scene of the massacre.
As the shooting unfolded, Gramaglia said, Buffalo police charged into the store and confronted the gunman in the vestibule.
'At that point the suspect put the gun to his own neck. Buffalo police personnel - two patrol officers - talked the suspect into dropping the gun. He dropped the gun, took off some of his tactical gear, surrendered at that point. And he was led outside, put in a police car,' he said.
The video of the arrest seen by DailyMail.com shows police cuffing the suspect and trying to get people away from the scene as several bodies lie motionless on the ground.
The gunman was carrying two rifles and wore a Kevlar helmet, body armor and carried two rifles
Officers in riot gear secure the crime scene after 13 people were shot, three fatally, inside a Buffalo supermarket
Heavily armed officer confer outside the Tops Friendly Supermarket located in a predominately black neighborhood just north of downtown Buffalo
Buffalo police department responded to the scene of a mass shooting that left 10 people dead and three wounded
'A shooter, it's a mass shooter type s***,' one of the onlookers says as police and emergency responders detain the man in the military uniform.
'Damn, look at him, a young boy,' the onlooker adds as he comments on one of the bodies.
Police then instruct the onlookers to back up as they take control of the situation.
Hours after the shooting, Erica Pugh-Mathews waited outside the police tape wondering what happened to family members who were inside the store.
'We would like to know the status of my aunt, my mother's sister. She was in there with her fiance, they separated and went to different aisles,' she said. 'A bullet barely missed him. He was able to hide in a freezer but he was not able to get to my aunt and does not know where she is. We just would like word either way if she's OK.'
The shooting took place on Saturday at the Tops supermarket (pictured) at 1275 Jefferson Avenue, in Buffalo, New York. At least 10 people were shot
Bystanders and shoppers gathered outside the supermarket where the shooting took place
The Buffalo Police Department said the shooter has been taken into custody
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