As the suspect was led out, someone shouted 'you're a coward!' from the courtroom gallery.
at a supermarket in Buffalo appeared in court Thursday, standing silently during a brief proceeding attended by some relatives of the victims after a grand jury indicted him.
District Attorney John Flynn said his office would not comment on the case while the grand jury investigation continues.The victims' family members who had attended the hearing left without immediately speaking to reporters. Investigators have been examining those documents, which included a private diary he kept on the chat platform Discord.entered a plea of"not guiltyThe massacre at the Tops supermarket was unsettling even in a nation that has become almost numb to mass shootings. All but two of the 13 of the people shot during the attack were Black. Gendron's online writings said he planned the assault after becoming infatuated with white supremacist ideology he encountered online.
Some of them accepted the invitation. It was unclear how many read what he had written or logged on to view the assault live. It also wasn't clear whether anyone tried to alert law enforcement.