Buffalo Tops Shooting

Police secure an area around a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket where 10 people were killed in a shooting on May 14, 2022.

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DOJ to seek death penalty for gunman in Buffalo supermarket mass shooting

2:38pm January 12, 2024

by Ryan Lucas

Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at the Tops supermarket in 2022.

A new civil lawsuit filed Wednesday by families of the Buffalo Tops mass shooting victims targets a number of social media companies, gun retailers, a body armor manufacturer and the mass shooter's parents. Here, a group prays at the site of a memorial for the victims of the Buffalo supermarket shooting outside the Tops Friendly Market on Saturday, May 21, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y.

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New lawsuit says social media and gun companies played roles in 2022 Buffalo shooting

7:07pm July 12, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

The lawsuit filed in the New York Supreme Court argues that several companies, along with the shooter's parents, played roles in the 2022 shooting that killed 10 Black people and injured three others.