Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has vowed on Thursday that he plans to sue "everybody" who was an "accomplice" to the Buffalo supermarket shooting as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interviews the gunman's parents.
The legal expert said that he and his colleagues intend to go after the gun manufacturers, the gun distributors, and anybody else who had a hand in 18-year-old Payton Gendron's White supremacist actions. Crump's remarks came during an afternoon press conference held outside of the Antioch Baptist Church in Buffalo.
Buffalo Shooting Suspect's Accomplices
In his statements, Crump also described the teenage shooter as a "young monster" who was responsible for killing innocent people. The civil rights attorney and Rev. Al Sharpton were in front of the church with the relatives of the four people who were fatally shot by Gendron at the Tops Friendly Market on Saturday.
Mark Talley, 32 years old, said of his mother Geraldine Talley, 62 years old, that she was a victim of a person who did not like Black people and chose to shoot a hollow point bullet while her fiance watched, as per the New York Post.
The situation comes as FBI officials are interviewing Gendron's parents who both work as civil engineers with the state Department of Transportation. The couple, identified as Paul and Pamela Gendron, was found to be cooperating with investigators.
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Photographs of the family's home on Sunday showed several agents sifting through items in a large shed on the property. The 18-year-old is accused of traveling roughly 200 miles from his home in Conklin, New York, to the Buffalo supermarket.
According to Fox News, the grocery store manager who survived the horrifying shooting said that the gunman raised red flags to employees leading up to the alleged racially-motivated attack. Rose Wysocki questioned how the store's employees missed the red flags associated with Gendron who visited the store dozens of times before the shooting.
Live Streamed Footage
He claims that the 18-year-old gunman once asked her why she was working at what he called an "all-Black store: and told her that she looked like she belonged in the suburbs. The night before the tragic incident, the suspect was kicked out of the supermarket for agitating customers and allegedly cased the site again the next morning.
Wysocki described how she took cover inside a conference room when gunshots started to ring out through the store. She said she could hear it coming from the produce area, carry-out cafe, deli, bakery, and meat department, and was coming closer and closer.
Furthermore, the Buffalo store shooter was found to have been live streaming the events of the incident to Twitch. Now, people who were searching for footage of the Saturday shooting on Facebook may have come across posts that contain footage or links to websites that promise to offer the full video.
In the days following the attack, recordings of the live stream have circulated across social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and fringe and extremist message boards and sites. The situation shows the challenges that large tech platforms are facing to keep the footage away, the New York Times reported.
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