The suspect in the Buffalo mass shooting appeared in federal court on hate crime charges.
The white man who opened fire on Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, killing 10, appeared in federal court Thursday, a day after Attorney General Merrick Garland met with the victims' families and announced hate crime charges that could bring the death penalty.
Payton Gendron, 18, has been held without bail since his arrest shortly after the May 14 attack at a Tops Friendly Supermarket, which also left three people wounded.
He appeared in U.S. District Court on a criminal complaint charging him with 10 counts each of hate crime resulting in death and using a firearm to commit murder. The complaint also includes three counts each of hate crime involving bodily injury and attempt to kill, and using a firearm in a violent crime.
The suspect agreed to waive his rights to a detention hearing and a preliminary hearing on the government's evidence for his case.
We were told by court officials that none of the defendant's family were present for this federal hearing just as they have not apparently attended any of the state court proceedings for the suspect. Federal officials stated in their released criminal complaint that a handwritten note from Gendron was found in his bedroom during a search of his parents' home by the FBI, They say that in that note he apologized to his family for committing "this attack" and said he had to do so because he cares "for the future of the White Race."
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