2022年水牛城槍擊案

Key facts

Date

May 14, 2022 ; 4 years ago ( 2022-05-14 ) , c. 2:30 p.m. – 2:36 p.m. ( EDT ; UTC−04:00 )

Target

African Americans

Attack type

Mass shooting mass murder domestic terrorism right-wing terrorism hate crime shootout

Weapons

5.56 Bushmaster XM-15 E2S Target AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle .30-06 Savage Axis XP bolt-action rifle (unused, left in car) 12-gauge Mossberg 500 pump-action shotgun (unused, left in car)

Perpetrator

Payton Gendron

Defender

Aaron Salter Jr.

Motive

Anti-black racism White supremacy Belief in the Great Replacement and white genocide conspiracy theories Accelerationist neo-Nazism

Accused

Hayden Espinosa

Charges

27 counts

Sentence

State: , 11 concurrent life sentences without the possibility of parole plus 90 years to run consecutively

Verdict