Watch now: Buffalo Fire Lt. Matt Ersing discusses response to mass shooting
Buffalo Fire Lt. Matt Ersing discusses response to Saturday's mass shooting at Tops on Jefferson Avenue.
Buffalo Fire Lt. Matt Ersing discusses response to Saturday's mass shooting at Tops on Jefferson Avenue.
Retired Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell W. Whitfield, whose mother was one of the victims in Saturday's mass shooting at Tops, was joined by current Fire Commissioner William Renaldo, city firefighters and Mayor Byron W. Brown, who vowed to support the relatives of all the victims of Saturday's massacre.
The 18-year-old white supremacist accused of killing 10 people at an East Side Tops on Saturday considered dozens of other locations – including a Buffalo barbershop, a Syracuse shopping mall and a Rochester Walmart – before deciding the Jefferson Avenue supermarket would allow him to target the largest number of Black victims.
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