BUFFALO, N.Y. — As she stared down the teenager who murdered her sister and nine other Black people in the racially motivated Buffalo mass shooting, Barbara Massey Mapps said her blood was boiling to the point she wanted to reach out and wring his neck.
As Mapps gave a blistering victim impact statement in Erie County Court Wednesday, she said her anger grew as she interpreted the look on killer Payton Gendron's face as someone"who doesn't care." But it was her 46-year-old son, Damore Mapps, the oldest of her late sister Katherine"Kat" Massey's nephews, who made an attempt in court to physically assault Gendron.
The courtroom outburst briefly halted the hearing and cut short Mapps' statement, moments after she told Gendron"you don't know a damn thing about Black people. We're human." No charges were filed against Damore Mapps, who was not allowed back in the courtroom when the sentencing hearing resumed. During the hearing, Gendron apologized to the families of the 10 people he killed and the three he wounded in the May 14, 2022, racially motivated mass shooting at a Tops supermarket on Buffalo's east side.
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