June 20, 2003 - Payton Gendron
The attack on a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022 was a racially targeted act of violence, with ten of the thirteen victims being Black — a fact central to Gendron's stated motivation. He had radicalized online during the COVID-19 pandemic, absorbing white supremacist ideology through platforms where similar attacks were discussed and celebrated, and he modeled his actions closely on a 2019 attack in Christchurch, including the use of a livestream. The deliberate targeting of a neighborhood, the planning involved, and his stated intention to continue beyond a single location place this among the most calculated domestic hate-motivated shootings in recent American history.
From Wikipedia
Payton Spencer Gendron (born June 20, 2003) is an American mass murderer, white supremacist, and neo-Nazi who committed a mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo, New York, in which he killed 10 people and injured 3 others, on May 14, 2022. Gendron, who was 18 years old at the time, had traveled three and a half hours to the supermarket from his hometown of Conklin, New York.
Gendron livestreamed part of the attack on Twitch until the livestream was shut down by the service in under two minutes. He was inspired to do the attack after learning about numerous white supremacist mass murderers through 4chan during isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. His main inspiration was Brenton Tarrant, the perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings, who also livestreamed his attack online.
On May 14, 2022, at around 2:30 p.m., Gendron arrived at the supermarket, where he shot 13 people, 11 of whom were black and 2 of whom were white. At 2:36 p.m., Gendron had gone to the front of the building, which was surrounded by law enforcement, where he was arrested. He had planned to attack more locations if he hadn't been arrested and escaped.
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