'This Is a Community That Is Strong': Buffalo Mayor Urges Unity in Wake of Shooting

Storyful
2 年前

Buffalo Mayor Byron W Brown appealed for strength and unity while addressing a congregation in Buffalo, New York, on May 15, the day after 10 people were killed in a shooting at a local supermarket.

Brown told a congregation at the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church: “It is OK to grieve. It is OK to let out the pain, the anger, the anguish, that we are feeling, but in a constructive way. And after we grieve we have to come back together as a community.”

Brown continued: “This gunman thought he had targeted a community that is weak. But this is a community that is strong.”

Police said 13 people were shot at the store, 10 of whom died. The suspect was named as 18-year-old Payton Gendron. The shooting was being investigated as a racially motivated hate crime, police said. Credit: Mayor Byron W Brown via Storyful