Episode 1840
2022 Buffalo shooting
Tue, 2022-May-17 02:16 UTC
Length - 1:38
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On May 14, 2022, a mass shooting occurred in Buffalo, New York, at a Tops Friendly Markets store, a supermarket in the Kingsley neighborhood on the eastern side of the city. Ten people were killed, and three others were injured; 11 of the victims were black. The shooter livestreamed the attack on Twitch. The accused, identified as 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron of Conklin, New York, was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder.
Gendron is reported to have written a manifesto, describing himself as a white supremacist and voicing support for the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory. The attack has been described as an act of domestic terrorism, and the incident is being investigated as racially motivated.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:16 UTC on Tuesday, 17 May 2022.
For the full current version of the article, see 2022 Buffalo shooting on Wikipedia.
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