Buffalo shooting suspect Payton Gendron faces federal hate crime charges
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The Department of Justice has filed multiple federal hate crimes charges against alleged Buffalo shooter Payton S. Gendron which carry the potential of the death penalty.
The complaint filed by prosecutors in the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York states that, "Gendron's motive for the mass shooting was to prevent Black people from replacing white people and eliminating the white race, and to inspire others to commit similar attacks."
Gendron, 18, who is White, shot 13 people -- 11 of them Black -- at the Tops Friendly Market on May 14. Ten of those victims died.
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