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Payton Gendron planned to drive to a second location in Buffalo to attack more black people on Saturday but was stopped by police at the Tops store, Buffalo Police Chief Joseph Gramaglia said.
86-year-old Ruth Whitfield, the mother of the former Buffalo fire commissioner, was gunned down in Saturday's shooting. Ex-Buffalo cop Aaron Salter Jr. was also killed during the shooting.
Payton Gendron, 18, shot 13 people, ten of whom were fatally injured, during an attack motivated by his hatred for black people at a Top Market supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
Payton Gendron, 18, of Conklin, New York, is charged with first-degree murder, after he allegedly drove three hours and gunned down 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket in a 'racially-motivated' attack.
Aaron Salter Jr, 55, pulled out his own weapon when he noticed a gunman enter the Tops Friendly Markets store in Buffalo, New York with an assault weapon on Saturday, and fired at the gunman.