A man accused of killing 10 people at a Buffalo grocery store last month was indicted Wednesday on murder and domestic terrorism charges, following a shooting spree that authorities have described as a racially motivated attack on a predominantly Black community.
The Erie County Courthouse has a hearing on May 19.
According to an indictment released by court officials, a grand jury in Erie County, New York, indicted 18-year-old Payton Gendron on 25 counts, including one count of domestic terrorism motivated by hate.
Gendron was indicted on 10 first-degree murder counts, 10 counts of second-degree murder as a hate crime, three counts of attempted murder, and one count of criminal weapons possession.
A spokeswoman for the Erie County District Attorney's office confirmed to Forbes that the grand jury returned an indictment, but she did not comment on the specific charges.
Two weeks ago a grand jury voted to indict Gendron for first-degree murder, but details were not released at the time.
Forbes reached out to Gendron's attorney after he pleaded not guilty.
Gendron will be in court on Thursday.
More than two weeks ago, Gendron was accused of shooting 13 people, 10 of whom died, at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo's East Side neighborhood. 11 of the 13 victims were black. Gendron, a native of upstate New York, traveled for hours to commit the shooting with a goal of targeting Black residents. Ahead of the shooting, Gendron purportedly posted online a 180-page racist screed in which he identified himself as a white supremacist and backed the conspiracy theory that people of color arereplacing white Americans.
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