Jury selection begins in hate crimes trial for Buffalo supermarket gunman
Summary
Jury selection has started for the federal hate crimes trial of Payton Gendron, who killed 10 Black people in a 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooting. Gendron faces hate crime and firearms charges and is already serving life in prison from state murder convictions, while families and survivors have mixed views on whether he should receive the death penalty.Key Facts
- Payton Gendron killed 10 people at a Tops Friendly Markets store in Buffalo on May 14, 2022.
- All victims were Black and aged between 32 and 86 years old.
- Gendron drove over 200 miles to Buffalo to carry out the attack, firing about 60 shots from a semiautomatic rifle.
- He faces over two dozen federal hate crime charges and more than a dozen firearms charges.
- Gendron is already serving life in prison after state murder convictions.
- His defense will not dispute guilt but will present reasons to avoid the death penalty.
- Evidence shows Gendron was motivated by racist beliefs and a false theory called the “great replacement theory.”
- The shooting is considered one of the deadliest attacks on Black people in modern U.S. history and is linked to a pattern of online radicalization.
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