Despite his protests that it was all a joke, the bespectacled 17-year-old who had long been viewed by classmates as a smart loner was questioned by state police over the possible threat and then taken into custody and to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation under a state mental health law.
Gendron, now 18, was arraigned on a state murder charge over the weekend and a court-appointed public defender entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. He remained jailed under suicide watch as federal prosecutors contemplate hate-crime charges. When school partially opened again early last year after COVID-19-related shutdowns, Gendron showed up covered head to toe in a hazmat suit. Classmate Matthew Casado said he didn't think the stunt -- he called it “a harmless joke” - went down well with other students.
At one point last winter, Gendron's mother called Casado's mother with a request: Please have Matthew call Payton because he had no friends and needed to talk. “He was very friendly, very respectable,” said Lobdell, adding that his family had grown so close to the Gendrons that they even attended Payton's graduation party last year. “When I heard about the shooting ... I just cried.”
U.S.A U.S.A U.S.A!!!
And police new he threatened to attack his school a year prior to this and did nothing
Cry me a river...the white card weighing heavy...smh.
Wow he's alive they would of murdered any black person who even thought of this
Shooter was an angry, white supremacist who intentionally murdered people he felt were beneath him.... Is what you meant to say
Lonely, isolated and showing signs of trouble?!!! C'mon man!!! Are people supposed to feel bad for this racist murderer? Give me a break 😡😡😡
And most importantly ‘known to the FBI’. The most common phrase used when describing these lunatics. Sadly the FBI and CIA have been too busy trying to frame Trump and his associates these past few years.
Welcome to America. Where guns have more rights than humans.
…so this guy has some mental issues and won’t be labeled as a terrorist. Oh I forgot, he’s white and not a brown skinned muslim…double standards as usual. By the way cp24 do you always copy and paste your articles?
Making excuses for white supremacy and mass murder is NOT a good look . The subtext of your headline is dripping with racism. Buffalo BuffaloMassacre
American authorities, always lock the gate when the horses escape
Lonely isolated people tend to do bad things
An 18 year old with the above mentioned problems?
And let me guess... he was also... white christian?
That's America! 🇺🇸
In a country that thinks assault weapons are necessary for hunting ducks, rabbits etc these incidents unfortunately will continue to happen. Pray 🙏 for their souls
Oh yeah? Lone wolf you say? I dare you to release his manifesto. Lol
Who GAF? Gunman was a terrorist who posted their plans.
Why do you choose to sugar coat what this really is? A WHITE SUPREMACIST who acted in PURE HATE and shot innocent black people!!
I’m so god Damn tired of the “he was lonely and isolated” so is everyone else in the fucking world right now and not everyone decided to write a 180 page manifesto about murdering black people and then actually doing it.
Show some respect to the victims and fix your headline to reflect reality and call it what it is - terrorism and he is a terrorist. Plain and simple. May those that lost their lives to his racist hate RiP.
Wait what, how is this the headline, painting him as a victim? A lot of people are suffering from mental health but don't go around making an effort mass killing!
Imagine a stupid amendment being more important than people's lives
Start with complete crackdown & shutdown of 4chan, qanon b.s. a lot of these kids are getting brainwashed on the internet
Fixed it for you: Shooting suspect was a racist white supremacist who grew up in a racist home and was indoctrinated by other racists.
Stop with the sympathy.. this was a racist, targeted attack … do better
Please fix this garbage headline. It’s getting old.
That's a lame excuse... lonely and isolated. So he could buy a gun. If you are lonely get a job, or do something useful. Not going around and killing innocent people.
I thought that sign said Top5 😅
Why give this man sympathy!!!!!! He’s so guilty
And the gun shop salesman got all that the minute he stepped in🤪👀👌 Part time psychologist too
“Showing signs of trouble”—did you mean, signs of being a racist white supremacist?
Merica
This headline needs a rewrite. All these tragedies over and over and we still can’t at least report correctly. Disgusting
Trump needed allies so he normalized white supremacy. He allowed extremists to come out of the sewers into society. They are masters of radicalization. They work their puppets into mass murderers and presto homegrown Taliban. Its going to be hard putting this 🧞♂️ back in the lamp
Sounds like 80% of the population. This unfortunate sad tragedy will NEVER end. Society fails to recognize the signs of someone screaming for help on the inside!
Going to use those same compassionate adjectives for the next sausage maker who tries to get at the PM too?
This “troubled sad boy” nonsense is encouraging future white supremacist mass murderers. Stop it
Buy ice cream.
Corporate poop 24 yet again showing how s***** they are at news and how great they are at propaganda.
Do the gun buyers have to get a person to “attest” that they know this person well and can “vouch” for them that they are buying a gun ? That might make it more difficult for the buyer
Untill we solve the trillion dollar mental health problem, we need to eliminate the billion dollar gun industry. Simple math.
He literally wrote 'Here's your reparations' on his gun. And THIS is the headline you're going with?
Please add that his parents gift at Chriatmas was a gun. Billions of people in the world are lonely and isolated but not many of them are getting guns as presents.
Do better. Buffalo shooter was racist and murdered Black people. I fixed it for you.
Second amendment… which can’t be amended.
WTF does being lonely have to do with anything? He was decapitating cats and should have been locked up, nevermind disqualified from buying a gun.
And there it is… DoubleStandards
Funny how these headlines are the norm for white perpetrators, but read very very different when it’s a person of colour. Be better.
What is this nonesense. The “lone wolf” trope. Be better. He was a white Supremist racist who specially targeted Black people. Also, the correct term is rifle.
Only if he had more melanin the headline would’ve been different 🤷🏻♀️ we see right through you
What would it take to call him a terrorist?
He deserves the chair... Just like every other thug and gangster in this city. If we can agree on one then we should agree on the other
Your describing most Americans with guns
Being psychiatrically evaluated doesn't mean that someone has psychological problems. You're making the assumption that he had mental problems that should have been visible and prevented him from buying firearms.
What is whiteprivilege again?
You guys really didn't think that headline through eh? White guys are always troubled.
Ah, the good ol buzzwords.
Lonely, isolated ... but AP forgot this one: a creepy incel who couldn't get a date.
Who isn't lonely? Lonely people don't go around intentionally killing Black people. Oh please, give us a break from this white news and focus on his white supremacist beliefs which he acted on.
I Call B.S. He knew what he was doing and why were authorities watching him? As soon as a white kid pulls a massive shooting the first thing they claim they have mental illness.
who the fuck wrote this shit…?
It wasnt an assault rifle for fuck sakes. Get your fucking facts straight an AR-15 is not an assault rifle you just look so uninformed.
HI
Welcome to America.
Yeah 'this right shall not be infringed upon' ring any bells
Don't even put that mental health spin on this, he knew what he was doing, planned it for months, was on social media stating his manifesto, had racial slurs on his gun. That is not a mental health issue, that is pure planned racial hate attack. Call it what it is.
Here we go again with the same BS news narrative when we see a mass shooter. Absolutely garbage
An 18 year old can walk in and buy a gun but you can’t drink alcohol till your 21. That’s their problem. Disgusting!
Just stop CP24, murdered 10 innocent people injured several others, he is not i repeat not a suspect!! Lonely are the loved ones grieving, Isolated are the people afraid to shop and Troubled are the people who have to relive this over and over 24/7
As long as Americans continue to blame the victim in the name of 'rugged individualism,' America will remain a breeding ground for disaffected people who tragically act out causing the deaths of innocents. I'm no doctor but would prescribe empathy and compassion.
Pssst, cold killers aren’t the victims.
May be they should resort to hanging on spot like in some third world countries ,no questions asked no lengthy trials and waste of tax payers money. The problem will go away at no time. During these time there are large number of people who are lonely and isolated so what?
How many times can we say sorry or our prays and condolences to the families , the lobbyist should be accountable the laws need change we just give, sell , a gun. Okay you have rights to a gun but it shouldn’t be just to anyone.
3 guys same name who is who? And used an air assault gun.
The dude wrote how he wanted to shoot up his school and he was a-okayed to continue to own a weapon of war...
'Buffalo mass shooter was viciously racist and bigoted, and boldly white supremacist, and was still allowed to buy an assault rifle'. there ya go -- fixed it.
Which of the 3 Bullshit. I have the manifesto dude has blonde hair
Here we go 🙄
USA USA USA 🇺🇸
This is an unacceptable headline/tweet. Trying to drum up sympathy for terrorist just because he is WHITE! DO BETTER!
'Osama bin Laden was a good student and a family man who loved kittens'
Here we go with the sympathetic headlines...
Get the fuck outta here with that crappy headline
B.S headline, call it what it is!
We need to stay vigilant there is always a Canadian copycat
Stop trying to humanize him. He's a racism-fuelled terrorist who's objective was to murder as many Black people as he possibly could.
Buffalo shooter was flagged, caught , coerced and groomed by the Feds to set up this FBI created mass shooting to further the racial divide and gun control agenda. there fixed the headline for you
Omg seriously? This man went in with the n-word painting on his gun and killed several Black people because he was a hateful white supremacist.
USA!! USA!!
What bleeding heart news aired that nonsense? Should we feel sorry for this racist killer I don't think so!!!
Not to mention how bad law enforcement are considering they had him in custody and on their radar prior too. The FBI has become a joke.
this article is working really hard to make a self-professed white supremacist who carried out an act of terror because of conspiracy theories seem like a nice boy who was sad
And racist
As always, while the gun ownership laws are an issue as well, it is the ludicrous supply of ridiculously powerful guns that is the biggest issue…fewer guns manufactured, fewer guns used in this manner (whether legally or illegally obtained)
They’re retail workers not psychologists
You misspelled terrorist
Lmfao that’s every one of us and we aren’t killing people. He was a white supremacist.
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