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Gendron...

And, and so they're talking about the jury pool, all right? Uh, Gendron faces the possibility of death if he's convicted on the charges connected to the 2022 mass shooting at Tops Friendly Markets on Jefferson, Jefferson Avenue.

Uh, 10 Black people were shot and killed.

It's tragic.

The weeks-long search for jurors who can fairly consider whether the white supremacist who killed ten Black people at a Buffalo supermarket four years ago should be executed for his crimes or spend the rest of his life in prison began in earnest Tuesday morning.

Payton Gendron's defense lawyers acknowledged to prospective jurors in a federal courtroom downtown they expect their client to be convicted on all twenty-seven counts he faces for the May fourteenth, twenty twenty-two massacre at the Tops Market on Jefferson Avenue.

In order to consider whether Gendron should receive the death penalty, federal prosecutors must first convict Gendron of any of the twenty death sentence-eligible charges he faces.

Then prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there's at least one aggravating factor that makes Gendron eligible to be put to death.

Jurors on Tuesday were told that they should expect to be notified of whether they were selected to serve in November or early December.

In their notice of intent to seek the death penalty filed in January 2024, prosecutors cited a handful of aggravating factors, including Gendron's actions were racially motored killings, showing his expressed bias, hatred, and contempt toward black persons.

Other factors cited were multiple killings and attempted killings, killing several victims who were particularly vulnerable due to old age and infirmity, substantial planning and premeditation, grave risk of death to others, committing acts of violence to incite violent actions by others, and selecting the tops markets on the east side to maximize the number of black victims.

Gendron, who was 18 at the time of the killings, drove to Buffalo from his Broome County home in what his defense attorneys acknowledged was a premeditated act.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the federal trial of the man charged with killing 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.

That shooting occurred four years ago at the Tops Friendly Market.

Peyton Gendron is facing more than two dozen federal counts, mostly federal hate crimes charges.

Prosecutors have described the 23-year-old as a white supremacist who targeted Black people in the shooting.

Yeah, I want to get to Aaron Donald here in a second.

But before we get there, I got to remind everybody we're brought to you by Tops Friendly Markets.

Anytime is a good time to go get yourself a Tops breakfast pizza, eggs, bacon, all the works.

All you have to do is call in your order, pick it up at the Tops Carryout Cafe.

Hello, this is Pam Clock, and for the next hour, I'll be reading from this week's supermarket ads on the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service.

Today, I'll be sharing ads from Aldi's, Dash's Markets, Market in the Square, Price Right Marketplace, and Tops Markets.

I'm going to start today with Dash's Market.

Dash's Markets prices are effective through October 10th, and they start off with a three-day super sale.

Signature Buffalo chicken wing soup, $5.99.

In the bakery, we've got bakery fresh savory twists, $5.49. Panini bread, $4.99. Angel food cake or buttermilk biscuits, five-pack, $5.99.

Uh, and they have cupcakes, the six-pack, and they're all decorated for Halloween, $6.99. And that's Tops Markets.

You've been listening to a reading of this week's supermarket ads.

The victims, excuse me, the honors were announced yesterday as Aaron Salter and another shooting victim, Pearl Young, were laid to rest and the country processes a newer massacre down in Texas.

Salter was working security and fired multiple times at the gunman who attacked the Topps-friendly supermarket in Buffalo.

The 77-year-old young was being remembered as a great-grandmother, a Sunday school teacher at her church, a long-time volunteer in a soup kitchen, and a substitute teacher in Buffalo Public Schools.

Meanwhile, out of East Greenbush, Governor Hochul says that she wants to raise to 21 the age to legally purchase the type of weapons that have been used in Buffalo and Texas and possible other firearms also.

Pallardo replied that he would not exclude evidence simply because it is disturbing.

but he said he will exclude evidence that he finds redundant simply more proof supporting a fact already proven by other evidence in person questioning of prospective jurors is scheduled to begin in three weeks for the gunman who has already admitted in state court to killing 10 black people in this racist attack at TOPS on Jefferson Avenue.

Gendron wounded one other black person and two white people in the attack.

A federal grand jury returned a 27-count indictment against Gendron, including 10 counts of committing hate crimes that resulted in death.