Buffalo mass shooting
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Buffalo mass shooting, also known as 1 Guy 1 Shotguns,is a shock video hosted on Twitch.
On May 14, 2022, a mass shooting occurredin Buffalo, New York, United States, at a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in the East Sideneighborhood. Ten people, all of whom were black, were murdered, and three people were injured. The perpetrator, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, livestreamed part of the attack on Twitch until the livestream was shut down by the service in under two minutes.
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The shooter drives up to a Tops Friendly Markets store in Buffalo. He is wearing heavy tactical gear, a body armor, and a helmet. The New York Times After exiting his car, he immediately opens fire on people standing on the street in front of the store. The gunman enters the building and continues shooting at customers and employees in the sales area. At one point in the video, the shooter points his gun at a white man hiding behind a cash register, but does not fire, saying "Sorry" and walking away. This confirms the racial motive behind the crime, as he targeted exclusively Black people. Less than two minutes after the shooting began, the streaming platform Twitch blocked the broadcast.
Payton Gendron[edit | edit source]
Payton Spencer Gendron (born June 20, 2003) is an American mass murderer, white supremacist, and neo-Nazi who committed a racially motivated mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo, New York, in which he killed 10 people and injured 3 others, on May 14, 2022. Gendron, who was 18 years old at the time, had traveled three and a half hours to the supermarket from his hometown of Conklin, New York.
Gendron livestreamed part of the attack on Twitch until the livestream was shut down by the service in under two minutes. He was inspired to carry out the attack after learning about numerous white supremacist mass murderers through 4chan during isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. His main inspiration was Brenton Tarrant, the perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings, who also livestreamed his attack online.
On May 14, 2022, at around 2:30 p.m., Gendron arrived at the supermarket, where he shot 13 people, 11 of whom were black and 2 of whom were white. At 2:36 p.m., Gendron had gone to the front of the building, which was surrounded by law enforcement, and was arrested. He had planned to attack more locations. He was taken into custody and charged with over 40 federal and state counts, including first-degree murder and terrorism. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges on May 19.
On November 28, 2022, Gendron pleaded guilty to all state charges in the shooting, including murder, domestic terrorism, and hate crimes in an attempt to avoid the federal death penalty. On February 15, 2023, Gendron was sentenced to 11 concurrent life sentences without the possibility of parole. Federal charges are still ongoing, and the federal prosecution also expressed their intention to seek the death penalty. Jury selection in his federal trial began on October 13, 2026.
Activity on chat logs and online diary[edit | edit source]
Gendron is also reported to have had an account on the chat platform Discord, with the same username as the Twitch user who livestreamed the attack.Thousands of chat logs were retrieved from the account's postings in a private chatroom, which were written in the form of an online diary and range from November 2021 to May 13, 2022. The logs include photos of Gendron, and the author claimed to be Gendron. Police said that they believed the messages are genuine. The chat logs reference a speeding ticket that is consistent with one received by Gendron. The logs also include to-do list items seemingly indicating that the author was preparing for the attack. The chat logs indicated that the attack was originally planned to occur on March 15 so that the author could commemorate the anniversary of the Christchurch mosque shootings. However, the attack was delayed due to the author developing a case of COVID-19. The logs contained indications from as early as November 2021 that the author planned to livestream a mass shooting targeting black people. He claimed authorship of a post on 4chan from November 9, 2021, that said, "a brenton tarrant event sic will happen again soon."
The online diary also had sketches of the layout of the inside of the Tops supermarket. The diary mentions visits to the supermarket on March 8. During these visits, the author notes being challenged by the security guard, which the author described as a close call. He also noted the numbers of black people and white people in the supermarket during his visits. The author considered attacking various locations, including a Walmart in Rochester, New York, and institutions with predominantly black attendees such as churches, malls and elementary schools. He also considered attacking synagogues but decided against it because March 15 would not fall on a Saturday (the Jewish sabbath), thus synagogues were not likely to have many attendees at the author's desired time to attack. He wrote that he used data available through Google to determine when the busiest times in the supermarket would be.
The author of the online diary described himself as being socially isolated. He said, "I would like to be able to say I had quite a normal childhood but that is not the case." He also said, "It's not that I actually dislike other people, it's just that they make me feel so uncomfortable I've probably spent actual years of my life just being online. And to be honest I regret it. I didn't go to friends' houses often or go to any parties or whatever. Every day after school I would just go home and play games and watch YouTube, mostly by myself." In another entry, he added, "If I could go back maybe I'd tell myself to get the fuck off 4chan ... and get an actual life."
At one point in the chat logs, the author describes killing and mutilating a cat, and posted images and gave a brief description on why he did it: "When I came home at ~10:30 I was eating pizza bites when I heard my cat Paige scream from the garage” Gendron wrote. “I quickly enter and the gray cat was attacking her. I then spent the next hour and a half chasing the cat around the garage and stabbing it with my knife (the camo one)." He expressed feeling no empathy or emotions after killing the cat. He told his parents about this and buried the stray in his backyard.
The chat logs also include occasional suicidal ideation and self-doubt from the author.
In other entries, he posted photos of modifications he made to his rifle so that it could be equipped with 30-round magazines, while acknowledging that this was illegal in New York state. He also posted details about obtaining other equipment for a planned attack, such as body armor and a helmet.
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- The video shows a cropped version of an animal pornography drawing.
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