BUFFALO, N.Y. — The final victim of the supermarket shooting massacre in Buffalo, New York, was laid to rest Saturday, as the country reels from another mass shooting.
Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff attended the memorial service for Ruth Whitfield Saturday afternoon at Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Buffalo.
Harris had not planned to speak but made remarks at the urging of Rev. Al Sharpton, counsel for the Whitfield family. Whitfield was returning home from visiting her husband in a nursing home when she stopped by the market to pick up groceries --"a daily ritual," her son, Garnell Whitfield, told ABC News -- and never returned home.
"It is up to us to take the stand to make sure that Ruth Whitfield's life will be remembered, her legacy, not just for this hateful act, but her legacy will be one of love, where all of us came together to demonstrate a greater love," Crump said during the service."A love that we said, No more, enough is enough. And that is our plea for justice -- that you stand with us and proclaim enough is enough.
"An assault weapon is a weapon of war, with no place, no place in a civil society," she told reporters, adding that background checks are"just reasonable." The suspect, Payton Gendron, 18, was indicted by a grand jury on first-degree murder, but all charges remain under seal. He is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges on June 9.
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