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Funeral held for Buffalo shooting victim Kat Massey

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Funerals are taking place for the black victims of a racist man who deliberately shot up a grocery store in a heavily black area of Buffalo. The funeral for Katherine “Kat” Massey took place Monday. The Associated Press has the story:

Buffalo shooting victim Katherine ‘Kat’ Massey remembered for civil rights advocacy

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Katherine “Kat” Massey is scheduled to be laid to rest Monday as funerals continue for the victims of the racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket.

Massey, 72, has been described by her friends as a civil rights and education advocate. Last year she wrote a letter to her hometown newspaper, The Buffalo News, addressing “escalating gun violence in Buffalo and many major U.S. cities” and calling for “extensive” federal action and legislation.

“Current pursued remedies mainly inspired by mass killings — namely, universal background checks and banning assault weapons — essentially exclude the sources of our city’s gun problems,” the letter read. “Illegal handguns, via out of state gun trafficking, are the primary culprits.”

Tears form in Steve Carlson’s eyes as he speaks about his former neighbor Kat Massey who was among the victims of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Massey was among the 10 Black people killed May 14 when a white gunman in body armor targeted shoppers and workers at a Tops Friendly Market in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo. Three others were injured in the attack, which federal authorities are investigating as a hate crime.

The alleged gunman, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, of Conklin, has been charged with murder and is being held without bail.

On Saturday, 32-year-old Roberta Drury, the youngest of those killed, was remembered at her funeral as friendly and kind with a bright smile. She had moved to Buffalo a decade ago to tend to her brother in his fight against leukemia.

Marshal Staufenberger, whose former neighbor Kat Massey was among the victims at a shooting at a supermarket, steps out of his home in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

“There are no words to fully express the depth and breadth of this tragedy,” Friar Nicholas Spano, parochial vicar of Assumption Church, said during the funeral service in Syracuse, not far from where Drury grew up in Cicero.

Additional funerals for the victims are planned throughout the week.


By CAROLYN THOMPSON

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