BUFFALO, N.Y. — Lawyers for Payton Gendron were back in court on Monday, arguing a motion which, if granted, could result in another delay in the federal death penalty trial for the confessed Tops mass shooter.
Gendron previously admitted in state court to traveling to Buffalo from his home near Binghamton and opening fire at the Jefferson Avenue supermarket on May 14, 2022, killing ten black people in what prosecutors describe as a racially motivated mass shooting.
He is eligible for the death penalty under federal hate crimes statutes…