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Buffalo shooting: Victims’ names released

Buffalo shooting: Victims’ names released

Officials have disclosed the names of the ten people killed in a racially motivated attack in a New York supermarket.

Suspect Payton Gendron, 18, shot and killed the victims, who ranged in age from 32 to 86, in Buffalo on Saturday afternoon.

A former cop, a woman who helped feed the underprivileged, and a man who drove shoppers to and from the grocery were among them.

Three other people were hurt.

The attack on Tops Friendly Market was a “racial hate crime,” according to Buffalo’s police chief.

Eleven of the 13 people killed or injured were black.

The incident was carried out in a primarily black neighborhood.

The local police released the details of these victims, with their names.

Roberta A. Drury, 32, who had relocated to Buffalo to be with her brother who had undergone a bone marrow transplant, was killed.

Andre Mackneil, 53, and Margus D. Morrison, 52.

Aaron Salter, 55, a retired cop who worked as a security guard at the Top Friendly Mart grocery shop, was killed.

62-year-old Geraldine Talley.

Heyward Patterson, 67, a devout churchgoer who drove people to and from the store Celestine Chaney, 65, a devoted grandmother.

Katherine Massey, 72, was a community leader with a “wonderful soul,” according to her sister Pearl Young, 77, who worked in a soup kitchen on Saturdays.

Ruth Whitfield, 86, had just returned from a visit to her husband in a care facility.

After being shot in the neck, store employee Zaire Goodman, 20, was released from the hospital.

Jennifer Warrington, 50, was also treated and released, and Christopher Braden, 55, is in good health.