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Court documents say a suburban Seattle man has been arrested and accused of threatening to shoot Black customers at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. The Seattle Times reports that a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court says 37-year-old Joey George is charged with making interstate threats and is scheduled to appear in court Friday afternoon. It wasn’t...

The white gunman charged with killing 10 Black people in a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges punishable by the death penalty. Along with hate crimes and weapons counts, the 27-count indictment returned last week accuses Payton Gendron of engaging in substantial planning to commit an act of terrorism. It also...

Today Buffalo supermarket Tops reopened with extensive renovations two months after the tragic shooting. Chris Jose reports.

Friends and loved ones of the Buffalo shooting victims gathered in front of Tops supermarket as it prepares to reopen Friday. Chris Jose reports.

The names of the 10 Black people massacred by a white gunman were read aloud outside the Buffalo supermarket where they died, two months after the racist attack.

The man accused of shooting up a Buffalo grocery store because of his hatred of Black people has been indicted by a federal grand jury on hate crimes and firearms, the Justice Department says. Payton Gendron faces 27 counts including 10 counts of hate crimes resulting in deaths, 3 counts of hate crimes involving an attempt to kill, and 13…

Thousands of people rallied on the National Mall and across the United States on Saturday in a renewed push for gun control measures after recent deadly mass shootings.

Zeneta Everhart, whose 21-year-old son Zaire Everhart was wounded in the Buffalo mass shooting, addressed lawmakers on Wednesday to demand new gun laws. “If hearing from me… does not move you to act on gun laws, I invite you to my home to help me clean Zaire’s wounds.”

The dispatcher shouted at an assistant office manager at Tops Friendly Market, asked why she was whispering and hung up, the employee said.

Vice President Kamala Harris gave a eulogy at the funeral of Ruth Whitfield, who was killed in the racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket. Whitfield was 86 and the oldest of the 10 people killed in the mass shooting.

The last of the victims of a gunman’s racist attack on Black people at a Buffalo supermarket has been memorialized at a funeral service that became a call to action. Vice President Kamala Harris urged the mourners on Saturday to stand up for what’s right. At 86, Ruth Whitfield was the oldest of the 10 people killed. Whitfield was inside...

Two days after a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., blasted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ahead of the governor’s planned appearance at the National Rifle Association. “What a fraud… These families don’t want thoughts and prayers. They want their elected leaders to respond to their suffering.”

New York has some of the toughest state gun laws in the country, but even that wasn’t enough to stop a gunman from killing 10 shoppers at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, this month. In the wake of another mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, NBCLX storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo took a look at New York’s...

US gun violence — including school shootings, mass shootings and accidental gun deaths — reached all-time highs after the pandemic hit and show no sign of slowing down in 2022. We explored the factors causing the surge and break down America’s gun problem in graphics.

Buffalo Tops market shooting victim Aaron Salter Jr. is honored at what would’ve been his graduation ceremony at Canisius College

Long before an 18-year-old avowed white supremacist inflicted terror at a Buffalo supermarket, the city’s Black neighborhoods had been dealing with wounds that are generations old. Residents, business owners and faith leaders say the attack has scraped off the scab hiding Black trauma and neglect that sit just below the surface in what’s called the City of Good Neighbors. They...

A 32-year-old woman who was the youngest of the 10 Black people killed at a Buffalo supermarket was remembered at her funeral for her love of family and friends and “smile that could light up a room.” Mourners said their final goodbyes to Roberta Drury on Saturday at the Assumption Church in Syracuse, not far from where she grew up...

The first funeral for one of the victims in the Buffalo mass shooting was held. Erica Byfield reports. today.

A private service was scheduled Friday morning for Heyward Patterson, who was a beloved deacon at a church not far from Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo’s Black community.

Shortly before police say he opened fire, the white gunman accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket allowed a small group of people to see his long-simmering plans for the attack, which he had been chronicling for months in a private, online diary. Discord, the chat platform where 18-year-old Payton Gendron kept the diary, confirmed Wednesday that...