Regarding the Tops supermarket tragedy where 18-year-old Payton Gendron gunned down 10 people, most of them Black, power attorney Ben Crump has now entered the mix and set his eyes on suing everyone involved, including the gun manufacturer and even the shooter’s parents.
Crump held a press conference outside the Antioch Baptist Church in Buffalo, going on record by stating, “We absolutely intend on going after the gun manufacturers, the gun distributors and anybody else who was an accomplice to this young 18-year-old white supremacist.” He was joined by Rev. Al Sharpton and relatives of four victims, one of them being 32-year-old Mark Talley who said of his late mother Geraldine, “My mom [became] a victim of this because somebody woke up and decided they didn’t like Black people and shot a hollow point bullet [through her right temple] with her fiance watching, hiding in the cooler as best as he could.” He emphasized the tragedy of that moment by adding, “My mother’s fiance had to watch her die.”
