Video: Family Member of Victim Lunges at Buffalo Gunman During Emotional Courtroom Moment
A sentencing hearing took a turn after a family member of a victim attempted to get to the shooter. The moment took place as Barbara Massey was delivering a victim impact statement about her sister, 72-year-old…
A sentencing hearing took a turn after a family member of a victim attempted to get to the shooter.
The moment took place as Barbara Massey was delivering a victim impact statement about her sister, 72-year-old Katherine Massey, who died after a gunman opened fire at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, killing 10 people.
“My sister Katherine Massey was a great person,” she said.
Massey continued, “Katherine didn’t hurt anybody. You don’t come to our city and decide you don’t like Black people — man, you don’t know a damn thing about Black people. We are human. We like our kids to go to good schools. We love our kids. We never go in no neighborhoods and take people out.”
A man behind her proceeded to charge toward the table where gunman Payton Gendron was sitting.
Police were able to grab the man before he reached Gendron.
Gendron was then taken out of the courtroom.
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After a break, Gendron was brought back into the courtroom.
“We cannot have that in the courtroom. We must conduct ourselves appropriately because we are all better than that,” Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan said.
Gendron was sentenced to life after pleading guilty in November to “one count of domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate, 10 counts of first-degree murder, three counts of attempted murder and a weapons possession charge” for the shooting that took place at Tops Friendly Markets on May 14, 2022, as CNN reported.