Alleged Buffalo supermarket shooter Payton Gendron is due in an Erie County courtroom Monday, November 28 at 9:30 a.m. for an appearance during which he is expected to plead guilty to state charges.
Gendron is charged in a 25-count indictment with carrying out a “domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate” along with ten counts of murder in the first degree, ten counts of murder in the second degree as a hate crime, three counts of attempted murder as a hate crime and one count of criminal possession of a weapon.
Gendron fatally shot 10 black people at the Topps supermarket “because of the perceived race and/or color” of the victims, the indictment said.
Gendron became the first defendant to be charged under New York’s relatively new statute “domestic terrorism motivated by hate,” which was adopted in 2020 by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo. It followed the El Paso Walmart shooting that targeted Latinos. The statute is named for Josef Neumann, who was stabbed to death at a rabbi’s home during Hanukkah of 2020.
Source-ABC
