GoFundMe for Buffalo shooting survivors hits $1 million
by Lexi Lonas - 05/19/22 7:48 PM ET
A GoFundMe page created for survivors of the Buffalo, N.Y., mass shooting surpassed $1 million on Thursday, three days after it was created.
The National Compassion Fund and Tops Friendly Markets started the GoFundMe to provide financial assistance to those affected by Saturday’s supermarket shooting, which left 10 people dead and three injured.
Authorities say they are investigating the shooting as a hate crime as the gunman was found to espouse the racist “great replacement theory” and drove hours to a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood. Eleven of the 13 victims were Black and two were white.
Erie County Sheriff John Garcia called the shooting a “straight-up racially motivated hate crime” in a press conference shortly after the incident took place.
The GoFundMe was started on Monday and has already reached $1,043,350. The current goal is to raise $1.5 million.
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