The Buffalo shooter told us who he was – why didn’t police stop him?By Piers Morgan
May 16, 2022
Last June, alleged Buffalo supermarket mass shooter Payton Gendron, then 17, threatened to shoot up his school.
Students at Susquehanna Valley High School in Conklin, NY, had been asked about their plans after graduation and Gendron said he wanted to commit a murder-suicide.
“A school official reported that this very troubled young man had made statements indicating that he wanted to do a shooting, either at a graduation ceremony, or sometime after,” a government official revealed to the Buffalo News.
Gendron’s threat was so disturbing that the school reported it to local Broome County police, who, after interviewing him, brought him in for a mental health evaluation.
He spent two days in a hospital and was released.
At the time, the Washington Post has reported, Gendron owned a Savage Axis XP rifle that he received from his father as a Christmas present in December 2019, when he was 16.
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What should not be up for debate is that the best way to stop bigoted lunatics like Gendron from committing heinous crimes is to act when they wave obvious red flags.
He was self-evidently a lethal cocktail waiting to explode, but the system failed to stop him because, we’re absurdly told, he wasn’t on anyone’s “radar.”
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Gendron had no further contact with law enforcement after his release from the hospital.
“Nobody called in,” he said. “Nobody called any complaints.”
To which my response is, why the hell weren’t YOU calling into HIM, Commissioner?
He most definitely was on your radar, as a potential mass shooter, but you just let him drop off.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/05/16/the-buffalo-shooter-told-us-who-he-was-why-didnt-police-stop-him/
