She described the tense scene as Gendron emerged from inside the market and was confronted by responders. I got down because I did not know if he was going to shoot me.” “I didn’t see him at first, I turned around and I saw him shoot this woman,” Crofton told the paper. She told the paper she saw him shoot two women. AP Photo/Joshua BessexĪcross the street from the Tops, retired firefighter and medic Katherine Crofton recalled seeing the Gendron after hearing the gunfire ring out while she sat on her porch with her dog. She told the Buffalo News she “just broke,” after seeing the bodies and is now “trying to power down.” A woman anxiously waited for updates while police investigated the scene of a mass shooting inside a Tops Friendly Market. Veronica Hemphill-Nichols said she was on her way into the Tops for a simple trip for a loaf of bread when she saw bodies laying on the ground in the parking lot. Payton Gendron allegedly left ammo, rifle at friend’s a day before Buffalo massacre.Payton Gendron wore hazmat suit to school, was hospitalized after threatening classmates.FBI interviews parents of alleged Buffalo supermarket shooter Payton Gendron.I wasn’t going to leave that room.” More coverage on the Buffalo supermarket shooting He said other frightened people joined him in the cooler. “It sounded like things were falling over.” Alleged shooter Payton Gendron appears during his arraignment in Buffalo City Court after being arrested. Shots and shots and shots,” he told the paper. Harris said she was able to track down her daughter, who was safe in the back of the store.Ī dairy worker at the Tops market said he took shelter inside of the cooler where he had been stocking milk moments before gunfire erupted. Her daughter also works at the supermarket, she told the paper. Buffalo police officers react to the scene of the mass shooting. “It’s like a dream, but I know it’s not a dream,” Harris said. She said she saw the shooter, who has been identified as Payton Gendron, of Conklin, New York, which is over three hours away from Buffalo.

She said she fell several times as she sprinted towards the back of the market. Shonnell Harris, an operation manager at the Tops, told The Buffalo News she heard 70 shots ring out in the market, which was “packed” with weekend shoppers. One victim is a retired Buffalo police officer. Officials have not yet released the names of the victims, but said 11 of those shot were black and two were white. Several friends and family members of those who were at the store are awaiting any news of their loved ones hours later. The shooting sent those in the store fleeing for their lives outside of the nearest exit, or hiding in coolers. Workers and shoppers described the chaos and carnage at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo when an 18-year-old opened fire at the store in what officials called a racially-motivated mass shooting on Saturday that left 10 people dead and three others injured. NYC pols want to revive, expand state panel on black history education in wake of Buffalo massacreįamilies of Buffalo shooting victims sue social media companies for ‘radicalizing’ teen gunmanĪG Letitia James sues maker of gun part for ‘aiding’ Buffalo shooterĭem Assemblyman ogled son’s underage hookups in sex tapes: claim

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