Buffalo shooting

Friends and family were mourning the loss of 10 people who were killed Saturday in Buffalo, New York. Here's what we know about the victims.

Patterson, 67, was a deacon at a Buffalo church and had gone to a soup kitchen before going to the Tops store, where he often offered to drive people home with their bags. Young of Buffalo, 77, was grocery shopping after grabbing lunch with her sister-in-law when she was shot and killed, AL.com reported. My mother was a mother to the motherless. "Current pursued remedies mainly inspired by mass killings — namely, universal background checks and banning assault weapons — essentially exclude the sources of our city’s gun problems. Whitfield, who was from Buffalo, had four children and eight grandchildren. Her sister, Barbara Massey, stood outside the Tops story for hours dialing Kat's phone in hopes she would pick up. "You ask, he’ll give it. “My mom was the consummate mom. "There needs to be extensive federal action/legislation to address all aspects of the issue," she wrote in the letter. Their ages range from 32 to 86 years old. She was a blessing to all of us. Whitfield, 86, was shopping at the Tops store when she was shot and killed, her son, Garnell W. Whitfield, told The Buffalo News. She was stopping for groceries after visiting her husband at a nursing home.

Questions are being asked about how the suspect carried out the attack when he was known to authorities.

Some 40,000 deaths a year involve firearms in America, a figure that includes suicides - and mass shooting events occur frequently. The gunman in Buffalo, like ones before, live-streamed his violent rampage and left a so-called "manifesto" online. you see this on TV, you hear about it on TV... but I never thought I would be one of them," said one. A security guard fired several shots back but the gunman's bulletproof vest stopped one that hit him, police said. Of the 13 people shot, police said 11 were black. "It's like a nightmare...

Gunmen say they are influenced by online screeds and broadcasts of past shootings. Do social media sites have a responsibility to rein in hateful and ...

A company spokeswoman initially said the site might remove some instances of the video or add a sensitive content warning, then later said Twitter would remove all videos related to the attack after The Times asked for clarification. Removing violent content is “like trying to plug your fingers into leaks in a dam,” said Ms. Douek, the researcher. In the wake of the shooting in New Zealand, social platforms and countries around the world joined an initiative called the Christchurch Call to Action and agreed to work closely to combat terrorism and violent extremism content. Asked why some users were notified that posts with links to the video did not violate its standards, the spokesman did not have an answer. Social media and content moderation experts said Twitch’s quick response was the best that could reasonably be expected. Many of the gunmen in the shootings have written that they developed their racist and antisemitic beliefs trawling online forums like Reddit and 4chan, and were spurred on by watching other shooters stream their attacks live. Platforms like Facebook, Twitch and Twitter have made strides in recent years, the experts said, in removing violent content and videos faster. By Sunday, links to recordings of the video had circulated widely on other social platforms. Questions about the responsibilities of social media sites are part of a broader debate over how aggressively platforms should moderate their content. In a manifesto posted online, Payton S. Gendron, the 18-year-old whom the authorities identified as the shooter, wrote that he had been inspired by the Christchurch gunman and others. But two minutes was enough time for the video to be shared elsewhere. In March 2019, before a gunman murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, he went live on Facebook to broadcast his attack.

Details show plotting had likely been in development for months, while signs of trouble had surrounded shooter for some time.

“At that point the suspect put the gun to his own neck. The shooter appeared in court hours later, where he wore a white hospital gown. Aaron Salter, a recently retired Buffalo police department lieutenant, shot at the gunman in an attempt to stop him. Robert Donald, the store’s owner, told The Times that he conducted a background check on the alleged shooter, and that nothing turned up. The state police were dispatched to investigate and he was referred for counseling and a mental health assessment. One year ago, he was the subject of a law enforcement investigation, according to The Buffalo News.

A white gunman dressed in military-style clothing allegedly killed 10 people at a Buffalo grocery store. Here's what we know about him.

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The attack at a busy supermarket where 10 people were killed and three were injured was an act of “pure evil,” said Erie County Sheriff John Garcia. Authorities ...

“The two of them decided to jump in and try to revive it,” Amanda said, adding that post-pandemic business was just beginning to pick up. She was “full of joy,” her son said — “she just loved life and she loved the church.” She loved children, too, and was a proud grandmother to eight. Her sister said she wrote about schools, drugs and a topic she was concerned about: guns. She did the flowers,” she said. “She could have probably done a number of other things with her life and with her talents, but she chose to use them on us,” her son said. She was a well-known community figure who dressed up in costume at the local public school and assisted in elections. Jahon Smith, Mackniel’s cousin, said in an email that he was going to the supermarket to get a birthday cake for his son when he was killed. And she was a longtime fan of the soap opera “The Young and the Restless.” When he picked her up for errands or outings, Damon Young said, “she would always tell me, ‘Wait until ‘The Young and the Restless’ goes off. His mom should have been headed to work on Monday. She was just telling him about a bonus she was close to getting as the end of the school year approached, joking, “Yeah, I’ll be rich.” “We have to rally as a family around my father, and make sure that he’s well cared for,” he said. “They said it was some people wounded as well, so I was kind of hoping for that.” Born in Fayette, Ala., Pearl Young spent much of her life in Buffalo, where she was a “strict but loving” mother to Damon and his older brother and sister.

This once fringe ideology, which was at the heart of Nazism, has gained mainstream traction thanks in part to the likes of Tucker Carlson on Fox News.

Any supporter of White Replacement Theory is a clear enemy of the Jewish People. With its attacks on “Critical Race Theory”, this is a fact that the American political right is deliberately and knowingly trying to erase from our collective consciousness, so they can appeal to it again as a political weapon against liberal democracy. American Jews who support Tucker Carlson and his ilk, that is, others who repeat the White Replacement narrative, are supporters both of anti-Black racism, and antisemitism in its most violent form. White Replacement Theory is deeply ingrained in the worst aspects of American and European history. You will not find Tucker Carlson asserting that the Jews are behind the mass replacement of American whites that he bemoans regularly in what is regularly the most watched cable news show in the United States among adults 25-54. The ideology that motivated Gendron’s mass murder in Buffalo, White Replacement Theory, has a lengthy and blood-soaked 20th century history. Gendron’s manifesto begins in a similar fashion to Tarrant’s, by decrying the “white genocide” that will result from the supposedly low fertility rates of white populations and the high fertility rates of non-white immigrants brought in to “replace” them. The real actors behind White Replacement, according to Gendron, are the Jews, a topic which occupies the subsequent 29 pages of his manifesto. White Replacement Theory was the dominant structuring narrative of Nazi ideology. Hitler also was obsessed by mass immigration, and the threat it posed to “white civilization.” After entering the store, he murdered the store’s guard, and by the end of his killing spree, he had shot 13 people, killing 10 of them. The first listed goal in his manifesto was to “kill as many blacks as possible”.

The gunman who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo is thought to have been motivated by racial hatred.

He has entered a plea of not guilty and is scheduled to return to court on May 19. “This was pure evil. In the deadliest school shooting in the US last year, four students were killed and seven other people were wounded after a teenager opened fire at a high school in Oxford, Michigan. It came just a month after a shooting on a Brooklyn subway wounded 10 and just over a year after 10 were killed in a shooting at a Colorado supermarket. A white gunman in military gear shot and killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket in the US state of New York on Saturday, in what authorities called an act of “racially motivated violent extremism”. The gunman who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo in the US is thought to have been motivated by racial hatred.