Payton Gendron, a teenager of 19 years old, was charged yesterday with 19 charges by a grand jury after being arrested on suspicion of killing 10 people and injuring 3 more in a supermarket in Buffalo (NY) last month for alleged racial reasons.
The 25 Charges include Nationwide Terrorism and ten counts of first-degree hate-motivated murder, as well as ten counts of second-degree murder, three counts of attempted murder as a hate crime, and one count of possession of a weapon , according to The New York Times.
Gendron, who used an assault rifle in the killing, had pleaded “not guilty” of the ten charges of murder that were presented to him after his arrest, but the grand jury – which is summoned in cases of serious crimes – was carrying out its investigation and finally delivered its decision yesterday to the prosecution, highlighted EFE .
The young detainee will be brought before the judge today Thursday to hear the charges of the grand jury in a hearing scheduled for 2 pm in Eric County. The accusations arise in the midst of the mourning that the country is still experiencing for another massacre, which occurred 10 days later in a school in Uvalde (Texas), where 19 children and two teachers were murdered, most of them Latino.
According to the authorities, Gendron traveled several hours on May 14 to reach the “Tops” supermarket and when he left his The vehicle “was very heavily armed with tactical gear.” He was also wearing a military helmet and a camera that was broadcasting what he was doing live on the Twitch platform, which belongs to Amazon.
In the parking lot of the shopping center he shot four people, of whom which three died. Then he entered the supermarket, where he continued shooting, adding 10 dead people.
In the months leading up to the shooting, Gendron had posted racist comments in a private journal on the messaging site Discord, as well as detailed plans for a attack in Buffalo, and included photos of him posing with the assault-style weapon authorities say he used to carry out the shooting.
President Joe Biden and his wife Jill visited 17 in May with relatives of the victims, reiterating their national crusade against armed violence.