Buffalo fiend is hit with terror & murder raps

The man accused of killing 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket while hunting Black people was formally charged Wednesday.

Payton Gendron, 18, was indicted by a grand jury for a domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate, 10 counts of first-degree murder, 10 counts of second-degree murder as a hate crime, three counts of attempted murder as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon.

The grand jury said the accused gunman’s massacre played out “because of the perceived race and/or color” of his victims, thus the hate charge.

Gendron faces life in prison without parole.

Armed with an AR-15-style rifle, Gendron opened fire outside the Tops Friendly Market on May 14, then continued into the store, according to police. Of the 13 victims, 11 were Black, including all 10 fatalities.

“This was pure evil,” Erie County Sheriff John Garcia said, calling the massacre a “straight-up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community.”

In a 180-page manifesto in Gendron’s name and posted online, the teenager, who allegedly drove more than three hours from his hometown of Conklin, N.Y., wrote that he targeted Buffalo because it had the “highest Black percentage that is close enough to where I live.” He also allegedly had the N-word painted on the barrel of his modified assault weapon.

In an online chatroom opened just before the shooting, Gendron livestreamed the massacre and shared screeds, including his plans dating back months to scope out the grocery store and its security.