Sunday marks the first anniversary of the attack in Buffalo's majority Black east side, when 19-year-old White supremacist Payton Gendron opened fire at the Tops grocery store.
Relatives of victims, including Crawley, delivered emotional statements at Gendron's sentencing hearing.
There have been forums — one in Whitfield's honor last month highlighting White supremacy hate speech, health and wellness and terrorism — community events, and food drives that are bringing residents together in their grief. The mass shooting exposed inequities in food and economic security, and several organizations have stepped in to assist the community, Buffalo NAACP president the Rev. Mark Blue said.
Blue hopes mental health funding will reach schools so there are more resources to diagnose and treat mental illness at an earlier age. "Some federal lawmakers continue to look the other way when innocent Americans are being gunned down in these shootings," Brown said. "There are more mass shootings than there are days in the year. So this problem isn't getting better, it's getting worse."
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