On May 14, 2022, Payton Gendron walked into a Tops on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, NY armed with a semiautomatic rifle, killing ten people and wounding three others in a racist mass shooting. These images were shot while on assignment for the Washington Post


















BUFFALO, NY - MAY 17: Community members stand on E. Delavan Avenue, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, across from the Delavan Grider Community Center as President Biden delivers remarks in response to the mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market grocery store on Jefferson Avenue, carried out by 18-year-old Payton Gendron, Saturday, May 14. (Photo by Matt Burkhartt for The Washington Post) BUFFALO, NY - MAY 17: Community members stand on E. Delavan Avenue, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, across from the Delavan Grider Community Center as President Biden delivers remarks in response to the mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market grocery store on Jefferson Avenue, carried out by 18-year-old Payton Gendron, Saturday, May 14. (Photo by Matt Burkhartt for The Washington Post)
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Community members stand on E. Delavan Avenue, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, across from the Delavan Grider Community Center as President Biden delivers remarks in response to the mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market grocery store on Jefferson Avenue, carried out by 18-year-old Payton Gendron, Saturday, May 14. (Photo by Matt Burkhartt for The Washington Post) BUFFALO, NY - MAY 17: Community members stand on E. Delavan Avenue, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, across from the Delavan Grider Community Center as President Biden delivers remarks in response to the mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market grocery store on Jefferson Avenue, carried out by 18-year-old Payton Gendron, Saturday, May 14. (Photo by Matt Burkhartt for The Washington Post)
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BUFFALO, NY - MAY 17: Samuel A Herbert, a Buffalo community activist, stands before the growing crowd on E. Delavan Avenue, incorporating Martin Luther King Jr.’s, I Have a Dream speech into a speech of his own, before President Biden’s arrival to the Delavan Grider Community Center where he delivered remarks in response to the mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market grocery store on Jefferson Avenue, carried out by 18-year-old Payton Gendron, Saturday, May 14. “I want to acknowledge President Biden for being sensitive enough to physically come with his wife to the city of Buffalo, said Herbert. (Photo by Matt Burkhartt for The Washington Post)
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