After a grand jury indictment, the white man accused of killing ten Black people at a Buffalo grocery appeared in court Thursday, standing solemnly during a brief procedure accompanied by some families of the deceased.
Payton Gendron, 18, was handcuffed and dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit. “Payton, you’re a coward!” yelled someone from the courtroom gallery as he was brought out. He is being imprisoned without bail in jail.
The first-degree murder indictment, which includes all ten killings, was handed up Wednesday, according to Assistant District Attorney Gary Hackbush.
At the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo’s largely Black area, thirteen individuals were shot in all on Saturday. The prospect of hate crime and terrorist charges is still being looked at by authorities.
While the grand jury inquiry is ongoing, district attorney John Flynn said his office would not comment on the issue.
According to defence counsel Daniel DuBois, Gendron’s attorneys have similarly declined to comment.
The family members of the victims who had attended the hearing departed without speaking to reporters.
Gendron, 18, used a helmet camera to webcast the incident before surrendering to police outside the supermarket shop. He posted hundreds of pages of writings to internet discussion forums shortly before the incident, detailing his intentions for the crime and his racial purpose.


















