Teenage shooter, Payton Gendron has been found guilty and given a life sentence for the May 14, 2022 shooting massacre at a Tops Friendly Markets in which 10 people were killed.
Payton Gendron was sentenced to ten years in prison, one for each of the victims.
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The sentencing was disrupted when an audience member charged at him during the proceeding.
An unidentified person leapt at the juvenile shooter, distracting the court, during an emotional victim impact statement given by the sister of one of the victims of this Buffalo supermarket massacre.
In just a few minutes, however, the guy was held and restricted, and the hearing went on. Those who had lost loved ones or been hurt in the incident broke down in tears.
“You killed my little sister,” Barbara Mapps charged Payton Gendron, 19, at the sentencing hearing in Erie County Court on Wednesday morning, February 15.
According to News4Buffalo, Judge Susan Eagan ordered that the sentences be served simultaneously.
She informed Gendron, “You will never see the light of day as a free man again.”
On May 14, 2022, 10 people were killed by Gendron’s racist rampage at Tops Friendly Markets, including Mapps’ sister, Katherine Massey, 72.
Like Massey, the majority of those killed in the shooting were people of colour.
On many counts of murder and hate-motivated terrorism, Gendron entered a guilty plea in November of last year.
To quote one of Kat’s friends: “Kat will do anything for anyone, at any moment.” Mapps said to Gendron, her voice cracking with anguish.
Mapps, who stood at a podium and shouted at the murderer, frequently pointed at Gendron as she spoke.
Gendron, whose animosity sprang from his exposure to racial conspiracy theories online, shed tears during testimony and issued a brief statement of apology to victims and their families.
It was obvious that people were furious, but there were some people present who invoked scripture and prayed for him. Several others brought up the fact that he specifically targeted a Black neighbourhood that was very different from his nearly all-white upbringing.
“You’ve been brainwashed,” Wayne Jones Sr., the only child of victim Celestine Chaney, said as sobs rose from the audience. “You don’t even know Black people that much to hate them. You learned this on the internet, and it was a big mistake.”
“I hope you find it in your heart to apologize to these people, man. You did wrong for no reason,” Jones said.
“There can be no mercy for you, no understanding, no second chances,” Judge Susan Eagan said as she sentenced him.
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