Payton Gendron drove more than three hours from his village, Conklin, a rural town lost in the State of New York, to go, Saturday, May 14 afternoon, to the Tops Friendly Market supermarket, in a black district of Buffalo, near Niagara Falls. Dressed in combat gear, a helmet and equipped with a camera, he had with him a semi-automatic weapon, engraved with the number “14”, which means in the world of white supremacists: “we must protect the existence of our people and ensure a future for white people”.
The 18-year-old parked the car that belonged to his parents, reports the local media buffalo news. Then, at around 2:30 p.m. on that hot spring Saturday, he began shooting into the parking lot killing three people before entering the store, streaming his crimes live on the Twitch platform. The supermarket’s security person, Aaron Salter, a 55-year-old retired policeman, then fired back with his gun multiple times, but Payton Gendron was protected by his bulletproof vest, and he killed the guard. .
Payton Gendron murdered ten people, including six store employees, and injured three others. Eleven of the victims were black, according to Buffalo Police Chief Joseph Gramaglia. The killer then walked out of the store. Two policemen were there, yelling at him to lay down his gun. They didn’t shoot. Gendron complied and the police arrested him.
Payton Gendron was charged with murder in the process and jailed without bail. He pleaded not guilty. He risks life imprisonment, the State of New York having abolished the death penalty, unless he is tried at the federal level for a so-called “hate” crime. The authorities have called for a psychiatric examination, while the country is reeling from this racist massacre. Erie County Sheriff John Garcia called the attack a ” pure evil “. The Twitch platform says it cut off the live broadcast of the killing after two minutes.
Great Replacement Theory
In a press release, Joe Biden denounced on Saturday evening “a racially motivated hate crime”. “Any act of domestic terrorism, including an act perpetrated in the name of a repugnant white nationalist ideology, is contrary to everything we stand for in America. We must do everything in our power to put an end to domestic terrorism fueled by hatred”, writes the president. New York State Governor Kathy Hochul attended the scene and denounced an act of “terrorism”.
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