By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated July 18, 2023
Last Wednesday, two days before the anniversary of the fatal Tops grocery store mass shooting in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, NY, lawyers representing the victims’ families announced a landmark, “far-reaching wrongful death lawsuit.”
The lawsuit contends that then 19-year-old shooter Payton Gendron “was not racist until he became addicted to social media apps,” claiming they radicalized Gendron, “which directly lead him