'My life was destroyed': Survivors, loved ones struggle a year after Buffalo shooting

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'My life was destroyed': Survivors, loved ones struggle a year after Buffalo shooting
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Since the May 14, 2022, mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York supermarket, those who narrowly escaped with their lives and the loved ones of the 10 Black people gunned down by a white supremacist teenager say healing remains elusive.

Even the guilty plea from the killer, Payton Gendron, and his apology in open court at his sentencing, offered little solace.

Now, if I was Flash before, I'm like Captain America when he came back and was old, and he just sat down. The first three to five days after the attack were chaotic. I didn't know how to feel, what to do. I just felt terrified. I felt like my mind was going crazy. And after those days were up, that's when the advocacy started.

Barbara Massey Mapps, the sister of Katherine 'Kat' Massey, who was a community activist killed in the massacre. We were too close, maybe. There isn't going to be another Kat. I'm going to get a shirt that says,"Kat Massey, our family legend."

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