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   What we know about Buffalo supermarket shooting suspect Payton Gendron   
   By CNN, May 18, 2022   
      
   Gendron's parents were not known to hold extremist views,   
   according to two New York residents who have worked with his   
   parents at the state Department of Transportation and who   
   shared their views on the condition of anonymity due to the   
   sensitivity of the situation.  "I never thought of the family as   
   racist or hateful," said one coworker, who said she was heartbroken   
   for the victims' families as well as Payton's parents, Pam and Paul.   
   "I can't wrap my head around this tragedy."   
      
   Gendron was a worker at the local Conklin Reliable Market for   
   about four months before he left about three months ago, the store's   
   owner said, adding he was very quiet and left on his own terms,   
   giving two weeks' notice.  Gendron's mother regularly would walk   
   in the neighborhood, neighbors said. She was a nice woman, one said,   
   adding they "never would have thought that in a million years" Gendron   
   would have racist views. "It's pretty shocking," the neighbor added.   
      
   When you talked to Payton Gendron, "you wouldn't get more than a   
   word or two" from him, another neighbor said. Gendron's former   
   classmates said while he could sometimes be a loner and "odd,"   
   he wasn't known to be violent.  "I just don't understand what   
   convinced him to do this," said Bryce Gibbs, who said he attended   
   elementary through high school with Gendron & described him as "nice."   
      
   Gendron made a "generalized threat" in June while he attended   
   Susquehanna Valley Central High School in Conklin, Gramaglia said   
   Sunday, adding the threat was not racially motivated.  State police   
   took the student for a mental health evaluation, Gramaglia said at a   
   Buffalo news conference. After a day and a half, he was released.   
   The suspect was visited last year by New York State Police after he   
   did a high school project about murder-suicides, Garcia told CNN on   
   Monday. Concerns about alleged mental health issues "were brought to   
   light" after he turned in the post-graduation project, the sheriff said.   
      
   State police spokesperson Beau Duffy said that on June 8, 2021,   
   state police officers responded to the high school to investigate a   
   report that a 17-year-old student made a threatening statement. The   
   student was taken into custody under NYS Mental Health Law section   
   9.41 and transported to a hospital for a mental health evaluation.   
   Duffy confirmed it was an evaluation and not an involuntary commitment   
   -- so it would not have prevented the suspected shooter from purchasing   
   or possessing a gun under federal law.   
      
   State police were unable to confirm how long the person was in the   
   hospital or the findings of the evaluation. The agency also refused   
   to name the then-17-year-old.  The suspect addressed the incident   
   in posts on Discord later shared on 4Chan, writing in a post-dated   
   January 30 that he "had to go to a hospital's ER because I said the   
   word's 'murder/suicide' to an online paper in economics class."   
   "I got out of it," the suspect claims, "because I stuck with the   
   story that I was getting out of class and I just stupidly wrote that   
   down. That is the reason I believe I am still able to purchase guns."   
   "It was not a joke," the post reads, "I wrote that down because that's   
   what I was planning to do."   
      
   The suspect goes on to claim his mental health evaluation lasted   
   only 15 minutes after he spent hours waiting in the emergency room.   
   CNN has reached out to New York State police about this account.   
   Broome County District Attorney Michael Korchak, the district   
   attorney in the suspect's hometown, is reviewing "all aspects" of   
   last year's investigation into the threat and also "going back   
   several years" to understand the suspected shooter's behavior and   
   relationships with family, teachers and other students.  But it's   
   "hard to say" whether more should have been done in June, Korchak   
   told CNN.  "Unfortunately this is nothing new in the criminal justice   
   system," Korchak said. "Individuals that have mental health issues   
   may have it under control for a period of time, and then one day   
   they just snap and things as tragic as this happen."   
      
   Investigators are talking to the suspect's parents and they are   
   being cooperative, Korchak said.   
      
   https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/15/us/payton-gendron-buffalo-shootin   
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