Buffalo mass shooting update: Payton Gendron pleads not guilty to 10 murders after supermarket attack

A retired Buffalo police officer working as a security guard at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo was among 10 people killed by a gunman during a mass shooting on Saturday.

Aaron Salter Jr’s son told The Daily Beast that his father likely “saved some lives today. He’s a hero.”

Law enforcement believes Salter pulled out his weapon to try to take down the gunman, identified by police as 18-year-old avaowed white supremacist Payton Gendron, who was wearing body armor.

Gendron allegedly returned fire, killing the former officer.

In a statement late on Saturday night, President Joe Biden said “we grieve for the families of 10 people whose lives were senselessly taken and everyone who is suffering the physical and emotional wounds of this horrific shooting.”

The president said the Bidens are “are grateful for the bravery of members of law enforcement and other first responders who took immediate action to try to protect and save lives” as the family prays “for the victims and their families, and hearts all across this country are with the people of Buffalo.”

“We still need to learn more about the motivation for today’s shooting as law enforcement does its work, but we don’t need anything else to state a clear moral truth: A racially motivated hate crime is abhorrent to the very fabric of this nation,” he said. “Any act of domestic terrorism, including an act perpetrated in the name of a repugnant white nationalist ideology, is antithetical to everything we stand for in America. Hate must have no safe harbor. We must do everything in our power to end hate-fueled domestic terrorism.”

Here is what we know so far about the Buffalo mass shooting suspect and the investigation into the killings of 10 people on 14 May.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul tore into suspected Buffalo supermarket shooter Peyton Gendron during remarks on Saturday, condemning him for an “evil” act of “white supremacy” and “terrorism.”

“Yes, I’m here to console the families in a community that is feeling so much pain right now,” she said. “But mark my words, we’ll be aggressive in our pursuit of anyone who subscribes to the ideals professed by other white supremacists.”

She also criticised social media companies for allowing white supremacy and other hateful ideologies to proliferate online.

“They created the platform that allowed this hate to be spewed,” she said.

Police said Mr Gendron streamed the shooting, and live-video service Twitch confirmed that the alleged shooter used their platform to broadcast his video, before it was taken down.

Police were able to convice the suspected Buffalo supermarket shooter to drop his weapon without harming him, according to officials.

Officers surrounded the individual in the vestibule of the Tops store, where the alleged shooter began pointing his weapon at his own neck, police said at a press conference on Saturday.

The individual, identified as an 18-year-old white male from a New York county outside of Buffalo, then dropped his weapon and body armour before surrendering, they said.

Civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton is calling on the White House to host a multi-racial summit about hate violence, after a mass shooting in Buffalo killed 10 people.

“President Biden should have a White House meeting of Black, Jewish, and Asian leaders to underscore the Federal government’s escalating it’s efforts against hate crimes!” Mr Sharpton wrote on social media on Saturday.

The man who killed 10 people in a mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket on Saturday wrote a racial slur for Black people on the sights of his gun, according to unverified images of the massacre circulating on social media.

Officials have said they are investigating the shooting, which the suspect livestreamed, as a hate crime and posess evidence that supports this line of inquiry, but haven’t gone into specifics.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump posted a photo, allegedly from the livestream, showing the weapon with the slur.

“NO question of motive… he wrote it on his assault rifle!!” Mr Crump wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

Payton Gendron of Broome County, New York, 18, has been charged with first-degree murder in a mass shooting that left 10 people dead and three more injured at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday.

He was arraigned on Saturday night and pleaded not guilty.

He will next appear in court in five days for a felony hearing, according to Erie County District Attorney John Flynn.

Josh Marcus has the details here.

Payton Gendron of Broome County, New York, 18, has been charged with first-degree murder in a mass shooting that left 10 people dead at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday.

He was arraigned on Saturday night and pleaded not guilty.

He has been remanded without bail.

The teenager suspected of shooting 10 people in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket on Saturday has appeared in court for the first time.

The individual has only been identified publicly by police as an 18-year-old white male from a county multiple hours outside of Buffalo in New York.

The man was pictured in a white uniform wearing a facemask.

Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said he could face up to life in prison without parole on charges of first-degree murder.