who is 19 years old opened fire indiscriminately in a store Coming from a mostly black neighborhood and sharing the attack live on social media, he admitted to one hate-motivated domestic terrorism, ten first-degree murders, three attempted murders and one weapon possession.
The indictment assumes that: there will be no state court and Gendron will not object, as noted by defense attorney Brian Parker. Additionally, the charges mean: compulsory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, As reported by CNN.
As confirmed by police sources at the time, the young man arrived at the supermarket parking lot at 14:30 (local time). He shot four people near his car after he got out of the “heavily armed” vehicle and began live-streaming what he was going to do.
After this first shot, the young man entered the supermarket and continued to shoot up to 13 people inside after he managed to kill a security guard. Eleven of the thirteen people hit by the bullets were black.
Gendron is a supporter of the conspiracy theory known as the “great substitution”, which claims that the political elite is using immigration to reduce the white population.According to the Buffalo Police report, which shared a 180-page letter written by the suspect.
After the shooting, which was described as a “racist” act, US President Joe Biden assured that white supremacy is a “poison” to American society. “The evil came to Buffalo and it came to so many places, it manifested itself in the gunmen who massacred innocent people in the name of a hateful and evil ideology,” he said.