On May 14th, a gunman dressed in body armor and armed with a high-powered rifle killed ten people and injured three others. Two of whom were critically, outside and inside a Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue.
An 18-year-old white male from outside Buffalo was arrested following a racially motivated attack at a Tops grocery store, according to officials. Eleven of the thirteen people who were shot were African-American.
The suspect has been identified as Payton Gendron of Conklin, New York, about 200 miles southeast of Buffalo, according to two law enforcement officials. The officials were not allowed to speak publicly about the incident and spoke on the condition of anonymity. According to one of the officials, the suspect was being questioned by the FBI on Saturday evening.
