The United States Department of Justice indicted Payton Gendronthe 18-year-old white man who perpetrated a massacre in a supermarket in the city of Buffalo (upstate New York), where 10 people died, mostly black, on various charges of hate crimes, for which he could be sentenced to dead.
(Read: Suspect in the Buffalo supermarket massacre will continue to be detained)
“Gendron’s motive for the mass shooting was to prevent blacks from replacing whites and eliminating the white raceand inspire others to commit similar attacks,” the federal prosecutor’s office said in a court brief.
In all, Gendron faces 10 counts of hate crimes resulting in death, three resulting in injury, and another 10 counts of using a firearm for the purpose of murder.
The defendant, who has been detained since May 14 when the shooting occurred, also faces a state trial in Erie County, where Buffalo is located, a process in which he has pleaded not guilty.
Payton Grendon, the white supremacist who murdered 10 African Americans in a Buffalo supermarket.
ERIE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY / AFP
According to the authorities, the young man traveled several hours to reach the “Tops” supermarket in Buffalo and when he got out of his vehicle “he was heavily armed with tactical equipment.”
He was also wearing a military helmet and a camera that was broadcasting live what he was doing on the platform. Twitterwhich belongs to Amazon.
In the parking lot of the shopping center he shot four people, of whom three died, and then entered the premises, where he continued shooting, until finally killing ten people.
This is one of a series of violent incidents involving firearms that have occurred in New York and that have claimed several lives, and it was followed by another massacre in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were killed by gunshots. a young man.
EFE
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