Bishop Darius Pridgen addresses his congregation and confesses that his emotions are still not under control and that it's important for the community to grieve. Gov. Kathy Hochul attends the congregation at the 8:30 a.m. service at True Bethel Baptist Church along with many other elected officials as they grieve with the community over the mass shooting at Tops on Jefferson Avenue yesterday afternoon that killed 10 and injured 3, Sunday, May 15, 2022. (Sharon Cantillon/Buffalo News)
The Buffalo community came together early Sunday morning at True Bethel Baptist Church, a little more than a mile from the Tops supermarket where, a day earlier, an 18-year-old gunman from the Binghamton area shot and killed 10 people and wounded three others in a racially motivated attack that occurred in a predominately Black neighborhood.
Ten people were gunned down at a Buffalo supermarket Saturday in a horrifying mass shooting that officials were quick to label as "pure evil" and racially motivated. The shooting stunned a community basking in a warm May afternoon, with shoppers filling the Tops in a predominantly Black neighborhood at 1275 Jefferson Ave.
Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks to the congregation at the 8:30 a.m. service at True Bethel Baptist Church on Sunday, May 15, 2022, as she and many other elected officials grieve with the community the mass shooting at Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue on Saturday, in which a gunman killed 10 and injured 3. On the right is True Bethel Bishop Darius Pridgen.
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"We are shocked and deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence and our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families," Tops Markets said after a shooting at its Jefferson Avenue supermarket on Saturday afternoon left 10 people dead and three wounded.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said the Justice Department "is investigating this matter as a hate crime and an act of racially-motivated violent extremism."
Bishop Darius Pridgen addresses his congregation and confesses that his emotions are still not under control and that it's important for the community to grieve. Gov. Kathy Hochul attends the congregation at the 8:30 a.m. service at True Bethel Baptist Church along with many other elected officials as they grieve with the community over the mass shooting at Tops on Jefferson Avenue yesterday afternoon that killed 10 and injured 3, Sunday, May 15, 2022. (Sharon Cantillon/Buffalo News)
Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks to the congregation at the 8:30 a.m. service at True Bethel Baptist Church on Sunday, May 15, 2022, as she and many other elected officials grieve with the community the mass shooting at Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue on Saturday, in which a gunman killed 10 and injured 3. On the right is True Bethel Bishop Darius Pridgen.
