The shooting Saturday at the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y., by an 18-year-old gunman was a planned attack that authorities suspect was “racially motivated.” Thirteen people were injured in the shooting, with 10 deaths — all ten were African American.
The suspect, Payton Gendron, of Conklin, N.Y., attempted to livestream the shooting on Twitch and put out a racist manifesto detailing his disturbing thoughts.
One of his victims was a woman named Katherine Massey, who was an ardent advocate for civil rights and education in the black community, according to The Buffalo News. A woman who was described as “a beautiful soul” by her sister, Barbara Massey.
This is Katherine “Kat” Massey, 72 years old. Last year, she wrote a letter to Congress urging them to pass gun reform to save lives in her community and across the country.
Yesterday, she was killed in the Buffalo mass shooting. pic.twitter.com/thEajFy6Xn
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 16, 2022
Speaking to the Daily Mail, the grieving sister said she wants to see Gendron locked up in prison for the next 80 years – with a black cell mate
“I only saw his face for the first time today when it popped up on my phone,” Massey, 64, told the British newspaper. “At first I wanted to kill him, to choke him out then bring him back and choke him out again. But that’s not me.”
“I thought about it all night and I would like him to be in there for 70, 80 years. I want him to wake up every day with a black person or a Jewish person there next to him and have to deal with that,” she added.
In addition to spewing racist views, the manifesto also said that Jews are the real problem but that “they can be dealt with in time.”
‘These are your neighbors for the rest of your freaking life. You need to sit here boy. I just hope they don’t give him something to hang himself with,” Massey said. “He shot my sister in the face, I can’t get over that.’
The sister told the Daily Mail that their brother dropped Katherine off at Tops Friendly Grocery just before Gendron showed up and opened fire.
She said she raced down to the supermarket when her sister didn’t answer her phone, but police had already cordoned off the store. A bystander offered to show her shocking social media clips showing some of the victims laying dead in the parking lot, but she refused to watch.
“I couldn’t look at that. I was still holding out hope. I just kept begging the police, please let me find my sister,” Massey said.
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