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A former police officer and a woman who fed the community among the victims of the shooting in Buffalo

2022-05-15T23:55:50.913Z


The racist attack in a supermarket in a black community left 10 dead and three injured. These are some of his stories.


Saturday's shooting at a Buffalo supermarket has been called a racist attack and a hate crime.

In total 10 people were killed and three remain injured.

Of the total victims, 11 were black people, authorities say.

Among them is Aaron Salter, 55, who was the Tops Market security guard who confronted the shooter with his gun, the NBC News affiliate in Buffalo confirms.

However, the shots did not hit the 18-year-old attacker as he was wearing a bulletproof vest.

The young man returned fire and killed the former officer.

Aaron Salter. Scott Escoba / NBC News Buffalo Affiliate.

Salter was a former Buffalo Police officer.

The commissioner, Joseph Gramaglia, called Salter a "hero."

The shooting began Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in the supermarket parking lot.

Three people died there.

The attacker, Payton Gendron, then entered the store and opened fire with a rifle.

Then as he left he threatened to shoot himself in the neck, but was dissuaded and detained.

Ruth Whitfield, an 86-year-old woman, was visiting her husband in a nursing home and stopped at the store to do some shopping, her son told NBC Buffalo.

[“Abhorrent to the very fabric of the nation”: Biden condemns racist shooting in Buffalo.

The attacker left a chilling document]

Also dead was Pearly Young, 77, who was described by the local station as a community helper who ran a food bank feeding people in the Central Park neighborhood for 25 years.

The newspaper The New York Times also confirmed that Roberta Drury, 32, died in the supermarket where she went to buy ingredients for dinner.

"She was always the center of attention and made everyone smile and laugh," her sister Amanda Drury told the publication.

Celestine Chaney, 65, was another victim and

was at the store buying strawberries for a cake with her sister

, who managed to hide in a refrigerator as the shooter was shooting.

"But my mother can't walk like she used to," Wayne Jones, Chaney's son, told The New York Times.

One of the injured is the son of a woman who is part of State Senator Tim Kennedy's task force.

"Tonight a member of my staff, my extended family, is at ECMC when she should be home. She is sitting in a hospital waiting room, because her beautiful and extraordinary son was shot while just doing his job," she wrote. the senator on Twitter.

Although the full identity of the deceased has not been confirmed by the authorities, at a press conference on Sunday, New York Attorney General Letitia James released some descriptions, such as the woman who stopped to buy something after visiting her husband.

James said he met with some supermarket employees.

"I hugged a young woman who worked at Tops Market and was afraid that she had asked for her life (...) she was shaking in my arms."

[The shooter in the Buffalo shooting had been evaluated for mental health issues but was determined not to be a threat]

Two of the injured have already been discharged from the hospital and the third remains in stable condition, local authorities reported.

“I just prayed and tried to get out”

Jennifer Tookes told NBC News that she was at the market with a cousin when gunshots rang out in front of the store.

“He stopped, fired again,” he said, the shots from the man's rifle coming closer and closer to the inside of the store “I was just praying and trying to get out.

It's all he could do, ”added his account.

The woman ran to two doors where she managed to get out to the parking lot and from there she tried to communicate with her cousin who hid in a refrigerator until the attacker stopped shooting.


Julie Harwell, who was in the supermarket when a gunman opened fire, is comforted during a prayer vigil a day after the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.

REUTERS

“I saw the three bodies lying outside in the parking lot

.

One was by the door.

A man was next to his car.

Another girl was right there, "she said, adding that these images will remain in her head" for the rest of my life ".

Katherine Crofton, a retired firefighter and doctor, told NBC News that she saw the killer shoot from her driveway.

She was able to recognize that she shot a woman who was entering the store and another who was putting her purchases in the car.

“I ducked because I didn't know if he was going to shoot me,” she said.

Source: telemundo

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