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BUFFALO, New York (ABC7) -- The white supremacist who killed 10 Black people in a Buffalo supermarket was taken out of a courtroom Wednesday after someone in the audience rushed at him & was restrained by a court officer.
The charged moment came at the sentencing of Payton Gendron. Victims' relatives were addressing him about their anguish & loss.
Gendron pleaded guilty in November to charges including murder & domestic terrorism motivated by hate. The terrorism charge carries an automatic life sentence.
"You don't know what we're going through," a man shouted as he was led away by court officers. For several minutes thereafter, family members hugged & calmed each other.
Moments earlier, Kimberly Salter, the widow of security guard Aaron Salter, explained why she & her family were wearing black & red.
"Red for the blood that he shed for his family&d for his community & black because we are still grieving," she said.
Gendron, now 19, wore bullet-resistant armor & a helmet equipped with a livestreaming camera as he carried out the May 14 attack. He killed his victims with a semiautomatic rifle, purchased legally but then modified so he could load it with high-capacity ammunition magazines that are illegal in New York.
There were only 3 survivors after he shot 13 people, specifically seeking out Black shoppers & workers.
His victims at Tops Friendly Market included a church deacon, the grocery store's guard, a neighborhood activist, a man shopping for a birthday cake, a grandmother of nine and the mother of a former Buffalo fire commissioner. The victims ranged in age from 32 to 86.
In documents posted online, Gendron said he hoped the attack would help preserve white power in the U.S. He wrote that he picked the Tops grocery store because it was in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
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