Today marks the first anniversary of the attack in Buffalo’s majority Black east side, when 19-year-old White supremacist Payton Gendron opened fire at the Tops grocery store.
On the day she was killed, Simone Crawley’s grandmother, Ruth E. Whitfield, was buying seeds for her garden – a labor of love – where she planted sweet peppers and sweet potatoes. Whitfield, the family’s matriarch, was among the 10 people who died in a racist mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Markets in east Buffalo, New York, a year ago.
The city is hosting several events for the “5/14 Remembrance Weekend,” which will include a panel discussion and memorial service. Some residents say they are desperate for solutions to hate, mental illness and gun control to prevent mass shootings from happening again. Last June, New York Gov.
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