Judge charges US mass shooter
Date
2/16/2023 7:43:16 AM
(MENAFN) The New York teenager who shot dead 10 people and injured three others at a grocery store in Buffalo in May was given 11 life sentences without the possibility of release on Wednesday.
Payton Gendron, the mass murderer, was sentenced in Erie County District Court by Judge Susan Eagan. On three charges of attempted murder and unlawful possession of a firearm, he was also given a total term of 90 years in jail.
In November of last year, Gendron entered a plea of guilty to all of the accusations, including 10 counts of murder and domestic terrorism motivated by hatred. He said that he had murdered his black victims on purpose.
“There can be no mercy for you, no understanding, no second chances,” Eagan informed Gendron. “The damage you have caused is too great, and the people you have hurt are too valuable to this community. You will never see the light of day as a free man ever again.”
Gendron, who was 18 at the time, went more than 200 miles from his rural Conklin, New York home to the Tops Friendly Market in a predominately black neighborhood of Buffalo. If he managed to flee the grocery store, he allegedly had plans to carry out further killings. Eagan claimed that his shooting spree was deliberately planned and carried out rather than being a hurried and careless conduct, disqualifying him from receiving a reduced sentence under the juvenile offender statute.
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