Sunday 15 May 2022 03:34 PM Buffalo gunman 'had name of a Waukesha Parade victim on his rifle when he ... trends now
The gunman who killed 10 people in a racist attack at an upstate New York grocery store appears to have had the name of a white woman who was run over at a Christmas parade in Wisconsin last year scrawled on his gun.
Photos of the rifle used by Payton Gendron, 18, in the live-streamed massacre show the misspelled name of Virginia Sorenson.
Sorenson, 79, was at the Waukesha Christmas to perform as part of the 'Dancing Grannies' troupe when a man in an SUV plowed into the crowd, killing her and five others.
The assailant in the November attack, Darrell Edward Brooks, is a black man who had shared social media posts promoting Black Lives Matter and violence toward white people.
Gendron shot a total of 13 people at the Tops Friendly Supermarket in Buffalo at about 2.30pm on Saturday.
The teenager, described as an outcast with extreme views, had a 180-page manifesto that focused on the 'great replacement theory,' which holds that whites are being deliberately outnumbered in the US by migrants from other countries to skew elections in favor of the Democrats.
Photos of the rifle used by Payton Gendron on Saturday show what looks like the misspelled name of Waukesha Christmas parade victim Virginia Sorenson
Sorenson, 79, was one of six people killed when a black driver plowed into a crowd at the Wisconsin parade last November
Darrell Brooks had shared social media posts promoting Black Lives Matter and violence toward white people before he rammed an SUV into a crowd of children and elderly people
Payton Gendron, 18, shot a total of 13 people at the Tops Friendly Supermarket in Buffalo at about 2.30pm on Saturday after writing a racist manifesto
Buffalo police did not respond to questions about the writing on the gun, the Daily Beast reports.
Photos of the rifle used in the shooting appear to show Virginia Sorenson's misspelled name along with the N-word written across the barrel.
Sorenson was killed on November 21 during the Waukesha Christmas parade attack.
She was one of four members of the 'Dancing Grannies' that were mowed down by Darrell Brooks, who had espoused his own controversial views about race.
In a Facebook post from June 9, 2020, Brooks wrote: 'LEARNED ND TAUGHT BEHAVIOR!! so when we start bakk knokkin white people TF out ion wanna hear it...the old white ppl 2, KNOKK DEM TF OUT!! PERIOD..' followed by a middle finger and expletive emoji.
The posts were among several that emerged in the wake of his arrest after he drove his red Ford SUV in a crowd of kids and elderly dancing groups during the parade in the Milwaukee suburb.
Waukesha police later determined that Brooks had not planned the attack and that he did not seek to target any specific ethnic or racial group.
On Saturday evening, Payton Gendron pled not guilty to one first degree murder charge for his supermarket rampage.
Gendron, of Conklin, New York, was barefoot, masked and wearing a paper smock.
Terrifying video posted to social media shows a speeding red SUV collide into a group of people marching in the middle of the street during the annual holiday parade in Waukesha, some 20 miles west of downtown Milwaukee
Brooks shared a series of links and memes relating to race and white privilege in June 2020, when protests erupted over the death of George Floyd
He told the judge that he understood the charge against and was not guilty at his arraignment.
He has only been charged with one count of first-degree murder.
Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said the judge ordered a forensic examination and ordered him held without bail.
'We have taken the necessary steps to get him behind bars,' he said. 'That was justice. Getting that first murder charge filed immediately.'
The DA said that they are working with federal authorities to bring further terrorism, hate crime and murder charges.
Gendron's 180-page Google Drive document detailed his twisted reasons for carrying out Saturday's massacre at the Top Market supermarket.
Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron is pictured at his arraignment hearing Saturday night, after being charged with a single count of first-degree murder. Further charges are almost certain to follow
Gendron donned a paper outfit and mask for the hearing, and was barefoot. He spoke only to confirm that he understands the charge that he faces, with his lawyer saying that he intended to deny the allegations
Payton Gendron is arrested Saturday after killing 10 people at a Tops Market supermarket in Buffalo, Upstate New York
A large part of the manifesto focused on the 'great replacement theory.'
Gendron said he'd chosen to target the upstate New York store because it sat in the zip code 14208, which he said 'has the highest black percentage that is close to where I live.'
He included a rudimentary map of the store, but didn't name it prior to the shooting, saying he didn't want to tip anyone off should his manifesto end up in the hands of law enforcement.
The manifesto said that he'd been radicalized entirely by the internet - rather than anyone he'd met in real life - and added that he'd been inspired by Brenton Tarrant.
Tarrant is a white supremacist who live-streamed himself murdering 51 Muslims at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.
Gendron said: 'The truth is my personal life and experiences are
