A white supremacist is set to be sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket in an attack fueled by racist conspiracy theories he encountered online.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A white supremacist is set to be sentenced to life in prison Wednesday forPayton Gendron is scheduled to appear in Erie County Court, where heto charges including murder and domestic terrorism motivated by hate. The terrorism charge carries an automatic life sentence.
Gendron, now 19, wore bullet-resistant armor and a helmet equipped with a livestreaming camera as he carried out the May 14 attack. He killed his victims with a semiautomatic rifle, purchased legally but then modified so he could load it with high-capacity ammunition magazines that are illegal in New York.
In documents posted online, Gendron said he hoped the attack would help preserve white power in the U.S. He wrote that he picked the Tops grocery store, about a three-hour drive from his home in Conklin, New York, because it was in a predominantly Black neighborhood.that could carry a death sentence if the U.S. Justice Department chooses to seek it.
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