Transcript for Buffalo shooter pleads guilty to murder, terrorism charges
ALL RIGHT, MATT GUTMAN ON THIS
TONIGHT, MATT, THANK YOU.
>>> IN THE MEANTIME, TO BUFFALO,
NEW YORK, TONIGHT, WHERE THE
GUNMAN ACCUSED OF KILLING TEN
PEOPLE AT THAT TOP'S SUPERMARKET
BECAUSE THEY WERE BLACK, TONIGHT
PLEADING GUILTY TO MURDER,
ATTEMPTED MURDER, AND DOMESTIC
TERRORISM MOTIVATED BY HATE.
WHAT THE JUDGE DID TODAY IN THAT
COURTROOM.
READING EACH OF THE VICTIM'S
NAMES.
AND OF COURSE, WE REMEMBER THE
TEN TWO DIED.
THE YOUNGEST, 32, THE OLDEST,
86.
AND THE YOUNG MAN WHO PLOTTED
THIS, WHO DROVE SEVERAL HOURS TO
GET TO THAT STORE AND WHO HAD
VISITED THE STORE MULTIPLE TIMES
BEFORE.
STEPHANIE RAMOS IN BUFFALO.
>> Reporter: TONIGHT, SIX MONTHS
AFTER TEN BLACK PEOPLE WERE
KILLED IN A RACIALLY MOTIVATED
ATTACK AT A BUFFALO, NEW YORK,
SUPERMARKET, THE GUNMAN PLEADING
GUILTY.
>> AND THAT IS WHAT WE GOT
TODAY, WHICH WAS SWIFT JUSTICE.
>> Reporter: THE STATE'S
IDICTMENT AGAINST PAYTON
GENDRON INCLUDES FIRST-DEGREE
MURDER, ATTEMPTED MURDER, AND
DOMESTIC TERRORISM MOTIVATED BY
HATE, WHICH CARRIES A MANDATORY
LIFE SENTENCE.
IN THE COURTROOM, GENDRON
REPLYING "YES" AND "GUILTY" AS
THE JUDGE NAMED EACH VICTIM AND
CHARGE.
THE NOW 19-YEAR-OLD WAS ARMED
WITH AN ILLEGALLY MODIFIED
SEMI-AUTOMATIC RIFLE BACK IN
MAY, WHEN HE DROVE MORE THAN
THREE HOURS FROM HIS HOME TO
TARGET THE PREDOMINANTLY BLACK
NEIGHBORHOOD.
OPENING FIRE IN THE PARKING LOT
OF THE TOPS SUPERMARKET, THEN
ENTERING THE STORE.
GENDRON LIVESTREAMING THE
CARNAGE FROM A CAMERA MOUNTED ON
HIS HELMET.
>> THIS DEFENDANT'S OWN
HELMETED, MOUNTED VIDEO CAMERA,
IT ESTABLISHES BEYOND ALL DOUBT
THE GRUESOME FACTS OF THE
DEFENDANT'S CONDUCT.
>> Reporter: PROSECUTORS SAY HE
DELIBERATELY PLANNED HIS ATTACK
OVER SEVERAL MONTHS, EVEN
VISITING THE SUPERMARKET TWICE.
AND POSTED A DOCUMENT ONLINE
SHORTLY BEFORE THE MASSACRE
OUTLINING HOW HE PLANNED TO KILL
AS MANY BLACK PEOPLE AS
POSSIBLE.
TONIGHT, HIS GUILTY PLEA LITTLE
SOLACE FOR THE FAMILIES OF THE
VICTIMS, INCLUDING GARNELL
WHITFIELD, WHO LOST HIS
86-YEAR-OLD MOTHER RUTH.
>> TO HEAR HOW SHE DIED, AND TO
JUST IMAGINE WHAT SHE FACED IN
THAT MOMENT, HAVING LIVED THE
LIFE THAT SHE LIVED --
IT'S JUST TOUGH TO TAKE.
>> Reporter: THE SHOOTER STILL
FACES MORE THAN TWO DOZEN
FEDERAL CHARGES.
SOME OF WHICH CARRY THE
POSSIBILITY OF THE DEATH
PENALTY.
AND TONIGHT, DAVID, WE ARE
HEARING FROM HIS PARENTS WHO
SAY THEIR HEARTS ARE BROKEN OVER
THE DEVASTATION THEIR SON HAS
CAUSED.
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