President Biden talks about each of the Buffalo mass shooting victims

Here is a transcript of his remarks about the victims: 

"Celestine Chaney, 65 years old, brain cancer survivor, churchgoer, bingo player, went to buy strawberries to make her favorite shortcake. A loving mother and a grandmother."

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"Roberta Drury, 32, beloved daughter and sister, moved back home to help take care of her brother after his bone marrow transplant. She went to buy groceries for dinner. A center of attention who made everyone in the room laugh and smile when she walked in." 

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"Andre Mackniel, 53, worked in a restaurant, went to buy his 3-year-old son a birthday cake … His son celebrating a birthday, asking “Where’s daddy?”

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"Katherine Massey, 72, a writer and advocate, who dressed up in costumes at the schools, cut the grass in the park and helped the local elections. The glue of the family and the community."

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"Margus Morrison, 52, school bus aide, went to buy snacks for a weekly movie night with his family. Survived by his wife and three children and his stepdaughter. The center of their world."

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"Heyward Patterson, 67, father, church deacon, fed the homeless at a soup kitchen, gave rides to the grocery store to neighbors who needed help, putting food in the trunk of others when he took his final breath."

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"Aaron Salter, 55, retired Buffalo police officer, three decades … three decades. Loved electric cars. Hero who gave his life to save others on a Saturday afternoon. And had that man not been wearing that vest that he purchased, bullet proof vest, a lot of lives would have been saved. A beloved father and husband."

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"Geraldine Talley, 62, expert banker known for her warm, gentle personality. A friend to everybody, a devoted mother and grandmother."

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"Ruth Whitfield, 88, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, sang in the church choir, caretaker of her husband bringing him clean clothes, cutting his hair, holding his hand every day she visited him in the nursing home."

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"Pearl Young, 77, a mother, grandmother, missionary of God, public school teacher who also ran a local food pantry. Loves singing, dancing and her family."

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"And all three who were injured. Zaire Goodman, 20, shot in the neck and fighting through it. Jennifer Warrington, 50. Christopher Braden, 55. All three have injuries and a long road to recovery."