BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The defense team for the Buffalo mass shooting gunman continues to argue his federal trial should be moved from Western New York to New York City in a new, temporarily sealed court document.
Attorneys claim Payton Gendron, who shot and killed 10 Black people at Tops on Jefferson Avenue in May 2022, wouldn’t get a fair trial in Western New York. He is already serving life in prison after being convicted of the charges he faced on the state level.
While the new supplemental motion is sealed, Gendron’s team’s previous argument for the change in venue claims that “the extraordinary number of community organizations that arose to assist the victims and the neighborhood in the wake of the shootings is laudable, but it also renders a potentially wide group of potential jurors unlikely to be able to serve.”…