A federal magistrate urged federal prosecutors to quickly decide whether to seek the death penalty for the alleged Buffalo supermarket shooter, citing the expense to taxpayers of defending a death-eligible defendant.
Members of the Buffalo Police Department work at the scene of a shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., May 17, 2022.A federal magistrate on Thursday urged federal prosecutors to quickly decide whether to seek the death penalty for alleged Buffalo supermarket shooterGendron, 18, said at the U.S. District Court hearing that he has all of $16 to his name, prompting U.S.
Buffalo shooting suspect, Payton S. Gendron, appears in court accused of killing 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, May 19, 2022.Gendron made his first appearance in federal court, a day after U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the 26 federal counts against him and met with loved ones of the victims in Buffalo.
Gendron allegedly “wrote about his acquisition of firearms, ammunition, firearm magazines, body armor, a GoPro camera, and other supplies for the attack,” according to the criminal complaint, but the document did not say how Gendron paid for the items.
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