By Charlie Specht and Barbara O'Brien
News Staff Reporters
Updated
Dove signs with the names of the victims have been placed on the lawn in front of the Tops Friendly Markets on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo where a racist gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others.
The messaging underscores both the degree to which the gunman was influenced by previous acts of white supremacist terrorism, and his stated wish to inspire copycat violence, one expert on extremism said.
Payton Gendron said he decided to use an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle in his killing spree both for its effectiveness and potential to generate controversy.
The 18-year-old man accused in Saturday’s racist massacre scoped out the Tops supermarket in Buffalo the day before the shooting and was asked by a manager to leave, according to the manager’s brother.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, surrounded by the family of slain mother and grandmother Ruth Whitfield, promises to pursue a legal strategy that exposes the roots of the mass killings in Buffalo during a news conference at Durham Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church.
Dove signs with the names of the victims have been placed on the lawn in front of the Tops Friendly Markets on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo where a racist gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others.
