Buffalo shooting suspect pleads not guilty to terror charge

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Published June 2, 2022 8:21 AM

By CAROLYN THOMPSON
Associated Press

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man charged with carrying out a racist mass shooting that killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket has pleaded not guilty to hate-motivated domestic terrorism and other charges as a prosecutor called the evidence against him overwhelming. A lawyer entered the plea for Payton Gendron on Thursday. The 18-year-old didn’t speak during the brief hearing. Witnesses, police and his own video and writings incriminated him as the shooter who used an AR-15-style assault rifle to target shoppers and employees of a Tops Friendly Market. Authorities said he chose the store because of its location in a predominantly Black neighborhood. All 10 people killed in the May 14 assault were Black.

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