In May 2022, Gendron shot 13 people with a semiautomatic rifle at the upstate New York supermarket. Three people survived the attack, which he livestreamed. According to documents posted online, Gendron hoped the shooting would help preserve white power in the U.S.

Attorneys for a white gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket want to move his death penalty-eligible trial to New York City, writing in a court filing that it would be difficult to seat a diverse and impartial jury in the upstate city.

Payton Gendron, the gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket, has filed for his federal trial to be moved to City.