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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStore guard confronted Buffalo suspect during March visit, online account says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/05/16/buffalo-shooting-previous-supermarket-confrontation/
Two months before Payton Gendron allegedly killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, he was confronted by a security guard at the store during a trip on which he compiled detailed plans of the location, according to a document posted online last month by a writer who identified himself as Gendron.
Ive seen you go in and out What are you doing? the guard told Gendron on March 8, according to an account in the document. Gendron replied that he was collecting consensus data before making excuses and leaving for his car, according to the account, adding: In hindsight that was a close call.
The encounter with the guard at the supermarket was described within a 589-page document posted online on April 29. The document refers to the supermarket as attack area 1 and describes two more Buffalo locations as other attack areas to shoot all blacks during an apparent reconnaissance trip that spelled out the travel paths to each one, timing needed for each shootout and the estimate that more than three dozen people would be fatally shot in all.
The document contains numerous photos of Gendron and uses a handle Gendron used on other social media platforms. The messages contain many images of his activities and reference several events in his personal life, such as a speeding ticket, that The Washington Post has confirmed.
Gendron, an 18-year-old from Conklin, N.Y., has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in relation to the attack at the Tops supermarket on Saturday, in which three other people were also injured before Gendron was arrested at the grocery store.
Two months before Payton Gendron allegedly killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, he was confronted by a security guard at the store during a trip on which he compiled detailed plans of the location, according to a document posted online last month by a writer who identified himself as Gendron.
Ive seen you go in and out What are you doing? the guard told Gendron on March 8, according to an account in the document. Gendron replied that he was collecting consensus data before making excuses and leaving for his car, according to the account, adding: In hindsight that was a close call.
The encounter with the guard at the supermarket was described within a 589-page document posted online on April 29. The document refers to the supermarket as attack area 1 and describes two more Buffalo locations as other attack areas to shoot all blacks during an apparent reconnaissance trip that spelled out the travel paths to each one, timing needed for each shootout and the estimate that more than three dozen people would be fatally shot in all.
The document contains numerous photos of Gendron and uses a handle Gendron used on other social media platforms. The messages contain many images of his activities and reference several events in his personal life, such as a speeding ticket, that The Washington Post has confirmed.
Gendron, an 18-year-old from Conklin, N.Y., has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in relation to the attack at the Tops supermarket on Saturday, in which three other people were also injured before Gendron was arrested at the grocery store.
Anyone who spends months planning and casing targets to kill is probably a terrorist. Documenting it online doesn't make it mental illness.
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Store guard confronted Buffalo suspect during March visit, online account says (Original Post)
IronLionZion
May 2022
OP
What kept this bozo funded with gasoline, wheels, free time to do reconnaissance?
bucolic_frolic
May 2022
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FoxNewsSucks
(10,375 posts)1. Sounds deliberate, and pre-meditated.
bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)2. What kept this bozo funded with gasoline, wheels, free time to do reconnaissance?
maxsolomon
(32,979 posts)5. I had all 3 when I was in HS.
My job paid for it.
Except I spent my money on stereo components, records, weed, and a girlfriend.
underpants
(182,271 posts)3. Chilling.
randr
(12,408 posts)4. Pleading not guilty is the ultimate act of cowardice
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)6. "collecting consensus data"?
Is that a thing?
Did he mean "census" data? Or was he just seeing how many people would agree that it would be cool if he came back later and shot up the store? WTF?
What a worthless POS! I hope he spends the rest of his miserable life in prison. And I hope the family who enabled him never get a moment of peace ever again.
IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)7. 22 people watched it streaming live online
so maybe he got consensus from online losers. Maybe he meant census and said the first excuse he could think of.