During proceedings at a court in Erie County, Payton Gendron, 19, admitted all the charges against him, including murder, murder as a hate crime and hate-motivated domestic terrorism
An avowed white supremacist who carried out a deadly mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo has pleaded guilty to murder and hate-motivated terror charges.
Payton Gendron, 19, drove for three hours from his home near Binghamton, New York state, to the Tops Friendly Markets store in Buffalo, where he opened fire with an AR-15-style semi-automatic assault-style rifle. The teenager, who was wearing military-style body armour at the time, shot dead 10 people and injured three others in the attack in May this year.
Police say Gendron left a racist manifesto online before the attack, in which he admitted to targeting the town due to it being a predominately black neighbourhood, a court heard.Those killed ranged in age from 32 to 86 and included an armed security guard who died trying to protect customers, a church deacon and the mother of a former Buffalo fire commissioner.
In court, Gendron admitted all the charges against him, including murder, murder as a hate crime and hate-motivated domestic terrorism.
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