Buffalo Gunman Pleads Not Guilty

June 2, 2022 4:48 pm

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – The white gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket has pleaded not guilty to hate-motivated domestic terrorism and other charges as a prosecutor called the evidence against him overwhelming. A lawyer entered the plea for Payton Gendron on Thursday. The 18-year-old didn’t speak during the brief hearing. Witnesses, police and his own video and writings incriminated him as the shooter who used an AR-15-style assault rifle to target shoppers and employees of a Tops Friendly Market, and he surrendered at the crime scene. All 10 people killed in the May 14 assault were Black.  (Photo:  ABC News)