The meeting between Department of Justice representatives and victims of Payton Gendron will take place ahead of a previously scheduled afternoon status conference.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Relatives of victims of a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket have been called to federal court Friday for a “substantial update” in the case against the gunman, their attorney said.
The meeting between Department of Justice representatives and victims of
Attorneys for Gendron and his parents did not respond to emailed requests for comment, nor did the U.S. attorney’s office in Buffalo.
Those killed at the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo’s largely Black East Side ranged in age from 32 to 86. They included a church deacon, the grocery store’s guard, a man shopping for a birthday cake, a grandmother of nine and the mother of a former Buffalo fire commissioner.
The gunman wore bullet-resistant armor and a helmet equipped with a livestreaming camera as he carried out the attack with a semiautomatic rifle. The weapon was purchased legally but had been modified so that Gendron could load it with illegal high-capacity magazines, authorities said.
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