Ten people were killed, and three others were injured, in a shooting Saturday at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
The shooting was reportedly racially motivated and is being investigated as a hate crime.
The names of the victims were released not long after the shooting. They are:
Celestine Chaney, 65. She was a regular churchgoer, a breast cancer survivor, and a grandmother of six.
Roberta Drury, 31. She was from Syracuse, New York, an alumna of Cicero-North Syracuse High School.
Andre Mackniel, 53.
Katherine Massey, 72. She was a prominent local civil rights advocate.
Margus D. Morrison, 52.
Heyward Patterson, 67. He worked as a jitney driver, taking people to and from Tops to shop for groceries, and he was active with the State Tabernacle Church of God.
Aaron W. Salter, 55. He was a security guard at the Tops store who tried to stop the shooter.
Geraldine Talley, 62.
Ruth Whitfield, 86. She was the mother of Buffalo’s former fire commissioner and a member of the Durham Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church.
Pearl Young, 77. She was a substitute teacher for the Buffalo Public Schools and an active member of the 2nd Church of God in Christ Western New York Jurisdiction, where she taught Sunday school and volunteered in the soup kitchen.
For more information and updates, please visit the Buffalo News.
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