Thirteen people-eleven of them Black and two White-were shot, ten fatally. After his arrest, he made disturbing statements regarding his motive and state of mind. A total of sixty shots were fired during the shooting. īy 2:36 p.m., Gendron had gone to the front of the building, where patrol officers were able to talk him into dropping his gun after he reportedly aimed it at his neck. At another point, he aimed his gun at a white person behind a checkout counter but apologized and did not shoot. Gendron returned fire at Salter, who died at the scene. Due to the shooter's body armor, Salter's bullet did not stop him. At some point, an armed security guard, former Buffalo Police Department officer Aaron Salter Jr., shot at him. Other customers were hidden by employees in the milk cooler and said the shooter shot through the coolers, but the milk cartons stopped the bullets. Many employees and customers used the store's break room to hide from the shooter and barricaded the door with a heavy desk. According to a law enforcement source, he yelled racial slurs during the incident. He then entered the store, shooting eight more people and killing six. Gendron shot four people in the parking lot, killing three. At 2:34 p.m., a dispatcher started informing responding officers of an active shooter situation at the store. The first responding officers and firefighters arrived a minute later and reported bodies lying outside the building. At 2:31 p.m., Buffalo police received a call reporting shots fired at the store.
As he approached the scene, he was recorded on his livestream saying "just got to go for it". He was wearing body armor, a military helmet, and a head-mounted camera, through which he livestreamed the attack on the online service Twitch. In his car, he had a Savage Arms Axis XP hunting rifle and a Mossberg 500 shotgun. He was armed with a Bushmaster XM-15 AR-15-style rifle, modified to accept high-capacity magazines, and multiple 30-round ammunition magazines. EDT ( UTC−04:00), Gendron arrived at the Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue, in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. Governor Kathy Hochul promised policy changes in the state as a result of the attack while condemning the shooter shortly afterwards, New York banned most semi-automatic sales to people under 21 and certain types of body armor. The attack has been described as an act of domestic terrorism, and it is also being investigated as a hate crime which was motivated by racism. He voiced support for the far-right " Great Replacement" conspiracy theory in the context of a " white genocide".
Gendron is reported to have written a manifesto describing himself as an ethno-nationalist and a supporter of white supremacy who is motivated to commit acts of political violence. On February 15, 2023, Gendron was sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole as of that date, federal charges are still ongoing. On November 28, 2022, Gendron pleaded guilty to all state charges in the shooting, including murder, domestic terrorism, and hate crimes. He formally entered a plea of " not guilty" on May 19, 2022. Gendron was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder. Gendron, livestreamed part of the attack on Twitch, but the livestream was shut down by the service in under two minutes. The shooter, identified as 18-year-old Payton S. Ten people, all of whom were Black, were murdered and three were injured.
On May 14, 2022, a mass shooting occurred in Buffalo, New York, United States, at a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in the East Side neighborhood.
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