According to a report, the mother of the Buffalo supermarket-shooting victim learned her daughter had been murdered after graphic Facebook footage showed the mother shooting the young woman.
buffalonews.com said the unnamed mother sent her 30-year-old daughter to Top Friendly Market from a work Saturday afternoon, but the younger woman never returned home.
The newspaper reported that later scrolling through Facebook, the mother found a video of her exiting her adult child’s store – and watched in horror as accused white supremacist shooter Peyton Gendron allegedly shot her It was, the newspaper reported.
It was not immediately clear whether the mother had watched Gendron’s brief live-stream of her attack, which lasted about 2 minutes on Twitch before the streaming platform went down, or was watching other footage.
The woman’s daughter was among the first people allegedly killed by 18-year-old Gendron, who is accused of killing 10 victims in a racial attack.
Officials said Gendron, who allegedly wrote the N-word on his assault rifle, targeted a predominantly black neighborhood.
The mother, who lives on Riley Street in Buffalo, was not notified of her daughter’s death by police until Saturday night.
