Buffalo, Erie County, New York

Nick Names

Buffalo, New York has a couple of nicknames; inclusive:-

1. Queen City
2. City of Good Neighbors
3. City of No Illusions
4. Nickel City
5. Queen City of the Lakes
6. City of Light
7. City of Trees

Victims

1. Aaron Salter
   • Retired Police Officer
   • Was working as a security guard
   • Engaged shooter
2. Ruth Whitfield
   • 86 years old
   • Married for 68 years
   • Went to visit her husband at the Nursing Home
   • On her way back home, she went to the grocery store to pick up something to eat
3. Roberta Drury
   • 32 years old
   • Was visiting the city to assist her family member who had just undergone a medical surgery

 

Videos

Shootings

Law Enforcement

WIVBTV

1. Buffalo Mass Shooting Update
   • Profile
     • Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown identified and praised security guard Aaron Salter for engaging the shooter amid the mass killing.
     • Salter was killed during the shooting.
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:-WIBBTV
       Date Published:- 2022-May-15th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-15th
       Link
   • Participants
     • Leaders
       • Mayor Bryon Brown ( Buffalo – New York )
     • Law Enforcement
       • Mr. Aaron Salter ( Police Officer )

CNN

1. Buffalo mayor identifies hero who engaged shooter
   • Profile
     • Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown identified and praised security guard Aaron Salter for engaging the shooter amid the mass killing.
     • Salter was killed during the shooting.
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- CNN
       Date Published:- 2022-May-15th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-15th
       Link
   • Participants
     • Leaders
       • Mayor Bryon Brown ( Buffalo – New York )
     • Law Enforcement
       • Mr. Aaron Salter ( Police Officer )

Aaron Salter ( Eye Witness Account )

ABC News

1. Retired cop who confronted gunman in Buffalo massacre hailed as ‘hero’
   • Profile
     • Aaron Salter was one of 10 people killed in the mass shooting.
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- ABC News
       Date Published:- 2022-May-15th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-15th
       Link
   • Participants
     • Law Enforcement
       • Mr. Aaron Salter ( Police Officer )
       • John Garcia ( Erie County Sheriff )
       • Joseph Gramaglia ( Buffalo Police Commissioner )
     • Eye Witness
       • Fragrance Harris Stanfield
       • Yvette Mack

Fragrance Harris Stanfield ( Eye Witness Account )

ABC News

1. Buffalo shooting eyewitness: ‘I just ran’
   • Profile
     • Fragrance Harris Stanfield was inside the Tops supermarket with her daughter when the shooting unfolded.
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- ABC News
       Date Published:- 2022-May-15th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-15th
       Link
   • Participants
     • Law Enforcement
       • Mr. Aaron Salter ( Police Officer )
     • Eye Witness
       • Fragrance Harris Stanfield

 

Brady Lewis ( Eye Witness Account )

WIVBTV

1. Man who allegedly talked to supermarket gunman day before shooting speaks on attack
   • Profile
     • Police confirm multiple people shot at supermarket in Buffalo, NY; suspect in custody.
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- WIVBTV
       Date Published:- 2022-May-14th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-14th
       Link
   • Participants
     • Law Enforcement
       • Mr. Aaron Salter ( Police Officer )
     • Eye Witness
       • Brady Lewis
     • TV Reporter
       • Tara Lynch

Fox News

1. Eyewitness describes Buffalo supermarket shooting
   • Profile
     • Police confirm multiple people shot at supermarket in Buffalo, NY; suspect in custody.
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- Fox News
       Date Published:- 2022-May-14th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-14th
       Link

Eye Witness Account

Eyewitness News ABC7NY

1. Witness describes Buffalo shooting
   • Profile
     • At least 10 people were killed in a mass shooting Saturday afternoon at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- Eyewitness News ABC7NY
       Date Published:- 2022-May-14th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-14th
       Link

Incident

ABC News

1. At least 10 killed in Buffalo supermarket shooting
   • Profile
     • Payton Gendron has been arrested for allegedly opening fire at a Tops Friendly supermarket, killing 10 and injuring three.
     • Authorities are investigating the attack as a hate crime.
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- ABC News
       Date Published:- 2022-May-15th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-15th
       Link
   • Participants
     • Elected Officials
       • Kathy Hochul ( Governor of New York )
     •  Journalist
       • Stephanie Ramos

 

NBC News

1. At least 10 killed in supermarket shooting in Buffalo, New York
   • Profile
     • Law enforcement says a man wearing military-style gear entered a Tops Friendly Market in Northeast Buffalo, New York, and began firing a rifle.
     • Police say at least ten people were killed.
     • Authorities say they’ve arrested the alleged gunman, who was 18 years old.
     • Sources say at least two rifles have been recovered from the scene, with the N-word apparently etched into one weapon.
     • Police are looking into whether the suspect was motivated by white supremacist ideology
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- NBC News
       Date Published:- 2022-May-14th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-14th
       Link

New York – KTLA 5

1. At least 10 killed in supermarket shooting in Buffalo, New York
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- KTLA 5
       Date Published:- 2022-May-14th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-14th
       Link

Commentary

CBC News

1. Ten dead in Buffalo mass shooting police call racially motivated hate crime
   • Profile
     • WARNING: This video contains distressing details.
     • A white 18-year-old wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, killing 10 people and wounding three others Saturday.
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- CBC News
       Date Published:- 2022-May-15th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-15th
       Link
   • Participants
     • Dr. Yohoru Williams ( University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota )

CNN

1. What we know about the Buffalo shooting suspect
   • Profile
     • Prosecutors charged Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old Buffalo shooting suspect, with first-degree murder after being accused of killing 10 people in a supermarket.
     • The US Department of Justice is investigating the shooting “as a hate crime and an act of racially-motivated violent extremism,” according to a statement from US Attorney General Merrick Garland.
     • Gendron pleaded not guilty,
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- CNN
       Date Published:- 2022-May-15th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-15th
       Link

Post Shootings

Eye Witness Testimony

Good Morning America

1. Grocery store employees describe Buffalo shooting that killed 10 l GMA
   • Profile
     • Fragrance Harris Stanfield and her daughter, Yahnia Brown-McReynolds, were working at Tops Supermarket when 10 people were killed and another three wounded by a heavily armed gunman.
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- Good Morning America
       Date Published:- 2022-May-16th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-17th
       Link
   • Participants
     • Fragrance Harris Stanfield
     • Yahnia Brown-McReynolds

News Media

ABC News

1. Ten killed, all of whom were Black, in targeted mass shooting | Nightline
   • Profile
     • Suspect Payton Gendron, 18, walked into a supermarket in a predominantly Black community and opened fire on Saturday. Police said the attack was a “racially motivated hate crime.”
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- ABC News
       Date Published:- 2022-May-17th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-17th
       Link
2. New video shows suspected Buffalo shooter’s arrest after deadly rampage l GMA
   • Profile
     • Authorities confirm Payton Gendron, 18, visited Tops Supermarket two months before he allegedly shot and killed 10 people, in what the FBI calls a “racially motivated” attack.
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- ABC News
       Date Published:- 2022-May-17th
       Date Added:- 2022-May-17th
       Link

Video Transcripts

Shootings

Brady Lewis ( Eye Witness Account )

WIVBTV

Man who allegedly talked to supermarket gunman day before shooting speaks on attack

1. 2:49 THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO
2. 2:50 TALK TO YOU ABOUT.
3. 2:50 YOU WERE TELLING ME ABOUT THE
4. 2:51 SECURITY GUARD, THE FORMER
5. 2:51 POLICE OFFICER WAS TRAGICALLY
6. 2:53 DIED IN THIS INCIDENT.
7. 2:55 YOU TOLD ME HE TOLD
8. 2:56 YOU NO LINGERING AROUND THE
9. 2:59 STORE.
10. 2:59 KEEP IT CLEAR.
11. 3:07 YOU CREDITED THAT MAN WITH
12. 3:08 SAVING YOUR LIFE?
13. 3:08 >> YES, I HEARD HIM SAY TO
14. 3:08 SOMEONE WAS NO LINGERING AROUND
15. 3:09 THE STORE.
16. 3:20 SO ME KNOWING, BELIVING HE IS
17. 3:21 BUFFALO POLICE OFFICER NEVER
18. 3:22 REALLY WANTED TO GIVE THEM THE
19. 3:22 OPPORTUNITY TO SAY ANYTHING TO
20. 3:23 ME.
21. 3:23 WHEN I DO GO, I SHOP AND I
22. 3:24 LEAVE.
23. 3:24 THAT’S REASON ABOUT ME LEAVING.
24. 3:24 I HEARD HIM TELL PEOPLE THAT A
25. 3:25 COUPLE TIMES.
26. 3:26 YOU DON’T HAVE TO TELL ME SOMETHING 5 OR 6
27. 3:26 TIMES TO HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND.
28. 3:27 FROM WHAT I COULD HE WENT BACK
29. 3:31 AND SHOT AT HIM WHEN HE WENT IN
30. 3:31 THE STORE.
31. 3:32 SO YEAH, IF HE WASN’T THERE
32. 3:33 MORE THAN ANYTHING I WILL PROBABLY BE SITTING THERE.
33. 3:37 SO, I’M DEFINATELY THANKFUL.   I
34. 3:38 HEARD HIM SAY THAT.
35. 3:40 YES, I’M DEFINITELY THANKFUL
36. 3:42 FOR MR. SALTERS.
37. 4:00 YES, DEFINITELY.

 

Referenced Material

1. Buffalo, Erie County, New York
   • Wikipedia
     • Buffalo, New York
       Link
2. Dr. Yohoru Williams ( University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota )
   • University of St. Thomas
     • Home > About > Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion > Racial Justice Initiative > Biography of Dr. Yohuru Williams
       Link