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The man who pleaded guilty to killing 10 Black people in a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Wednesday after an emotional sentencing hearing was briefly disrupted when someone rushed at him.
Family members of several victims spoke about their loved ones during Payton Gendron’s sentencing hearing in Erie County Court, where he pleaded guilty in November to more than a dozen charges, including murder and domestic terrorism motivated by hate. The terrorism charge carried an automatic life sentence.
“There can be no mercy for you, no understanding, no second chances,” Judge Susan Eagan said before sentencing Gendron. “You will never see the light of day as a free man ever again.”
Gendron was briefly taken from the courtroom after a person lunged at him while Barbara Massey Mapps excoriated him for killing her 72-year-old sister, Katherine Massey. The person was restrained by officers.
