Buffalo shooter’s prior threat, hospital stay under scrutiny

https://www.breitbart.com ^ | MAY 16,2022 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Authorities say the white 18-year-old who killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket during a rampage that targeted Black people had previously made a threat at his high school

Buffalo shooter’s prior threat, hospital stay under scrutinyBy CAROLYN THOMPSON and MICHAEL BALSAMOAssociated PressThe Associated PressBUFFALO, N.Y.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman accused of committing a racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket made threatening comments that brought police to his high school last spring, but he was never charged with a crime and had no further contact with law enforcement after his release from a hospital, officials said.

The revelation raised questions about whether his encounter with police and the mental health system was yet another missed opportunity to put a potential mass shooter under closer law enforcement scrutiny, get him help, or make sure he didn’t have access to deadly firearms.

Authorities said they were investigating the attack on predominantly Black shoppers and workers at the Tops Friendly Market as a potential federal hate crime or act of domestic terrorism. Saturday’s mass violence in Buffalo was the deadliest of a wave of fatal weekend shootings, including at a California church and a Texas flea market.

Payton Gendron, 18, traveled about 200 miles (320 kilometers) from his home in Conklin, New York, to Buffalo to commit the attack, police said.

[1Old Pro]

These kooks almost always are on police radar. In this case the NYS Police interviewed him after he threatened to shoot up his school, the police gave him a clean bill of health??!

[1Old Pro]

What ever happened to the Black NY subway shooter?

[1Old Pro]

breitbart making this into a white vs BLACK thing. Did they capitalize BLACK when Franke James shot up the subway?

Obama was successful dividing the races and now the media only focuses on White vs. Black. I might add, so do the Blacks. The people interviewed in Buffalo tell me that many Blacks do not like Whites.

[kelly4c]

I remember hearing the FBI or some such government institution visited Adam lanza before he went on his shooting spree. Apparently it was under the guise of him being such a good hacker they wanted to give him... Kudos or something.

[snarkytart]

also can we say all this anti white evil white bullsh*t that is pushed non stop creates this powder keg?

[1Old Pro]

can we say all this anti white evil white bullsh*t that is pushed non stop creates this powder keg?

The media and Dems have been instigating race animosity for years now. Obama deserves much of the credit for lighting the powder keg.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile, looks like NYS plans on trying to buy off the vics' families so nobody will ask why the state and its LE allowed that perp to run loose and have access to firearms...

New York pledges millions to support Buffalo in wake of mass shooting: Gov. Hochul

[thefactor]

The shooter never made an actionable threat to shoot up a school. It’s strange to me that freedom-loving FReepers would want someone locked up for life because they made a vague threat that was not criminal in nature.

[Salman]

This is not an isolated case. It happens again and again. And there is never any accountability for these "failures" because they aren't failures. That assumes too much about what they were trying to accomplish.

Rather, the FBI identified a potential "hate criminal" and successfully made use of him. Again.

[1Old Pro]

The shooter never made an actionable threat to shoot up a school. It’s strange to me that freedom-loving FReepers would want someone locked up for life because they made a vague threat that was not criminal in nature.

I never said he should be locked up for life for his threat, I'd like more detail about it and whether it was a Red Flag. As for this recent shooting, I also don't want him locked up for life, I want the death penalty.

[oldplayer]

I thought this guy was a “teenager.” Instead, he is apparently a “gunman.”

Oh, the liberals’ clever and selective use of words!

[thefactor]

It was a school assignment where the shooter was basically asked where they see themselves in five years. The shooter responded "murder/suicide."

Law enforcement can do nothing with that. At most a psych eval can be ordered. And yes, death penalty. But taxpayers will pay to keep this parasite alive for the next 70 years. I hope someone takes care of him in prison.

[1Old Pro]

It was a school assignment where the shooter was basically asked where they see themselves in five years. The shooter responded "murder/suicide." Law enforcement can do nothing with that. At most a psych eval can be ordered.

I wonder if a psych eval was ordered, that would be the proper course of action.

[libertylover]

breitbart making this into a white vs BLACK thing. Did they capitalize BLACK when Franke James shot up the subway?

I noticed that too. And I think it actually contributes to the problem instead of helps.

[Quilla]

Excellent question.

[Reily]

Any reports of recreational drug use (even minor use!) with this guy?

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Why is brietbart capitaluzing black? Trash rag I guess.

[BeauBo]

Many of these High School shooters seem to been prescribed SSRI anti-depressants. I wonder what (if anything) this kid was on.

[mewzilla]

This is likely the excuse Breitbart is using...

https://apnews.com/article/archive-race-and-ethnicity-9105661462

[G Larry]

He did not legally possess the gun...(New laws won't fix that)

He did not legally possess the body armor...(New laws won't fix that)

The courts failed to stop the known threat...(New laws won't fix that)

Big Tech failed to censor his terrorist posts...(Big Tech pretends to care about that)