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For: Real America News Updated 15 May 2022, 18: 05 pm WBS
Payton Gendron, from 18 years old, who yesterday killed ten people and injured three others, mostly of color, in a supermarket in the New York city of Buffalo wrote when he was in high school that he wanted to commit a mass shooting, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia confirmed that Gendron was taken to a hospital by state police last June and released a day and a half later.
That is, made a “generalized threat, but not a specific threat directed towards a specific place or person “, as mentioned.
“Payton Gendron, was brought to a hospital by state police last June for a mental-health evaluation after he made a generalized threat.” And yet he was able to purchase and own a firearm legally. How? https://t.co/1WNUEh8sn0
— Alan RM Jones (@AlanRMJones) May 15, 2022
Gramaglia did not offer more details about that threat, he limited himself to pointing out that the Police investigated what happened, held an interview with him and transferred him to a mental institution to be evaluated.
Six months after that, Gendron moved by car from Conklin, a town to 320 kilometers southeast of Buffalo, and parked it in the parking lot of the Tops supermarket.
Later he left the vehicle armed, dressed wearing a bulletproof vest, a helmet and a camera with which he broadcast the massacre live through the Twitch platform, which belongs to Amazon, before turning himself in to the police.
Baptist Bishop Darius Pridgen assured during u a mass in honor of the victims that in the text Gendron, of white race, left written that he wanted to kill all blacks.
For his On the other hand, Governor Kathy Hochul, assured that the attacker also wrote that he had chosen to kill in that neighborhood, because it was majority black.
“It was not a random act of violence. We have seen enough of this. We see what happens when there are too many guns on our streets and people get angry or in the middle of a gang battle and there are innocent victims,” Hochul said today.
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