'I wish I never met him': Black GF of Payton Gendron’s friend says killer is a 'disgrace'
BUFFALO, NEW YORK: According to DailyMail, the white supremacist Buffalo supermarket shooter only had two close friends - a Hispanic man and his black girlfriend.
Payton Gendron's friend Matt Casado says that Gendron used to spend a lot of his free time at Casado's mobile home with Skylar McClain, his girlfriend. McClain, 19, said, “I just wish I had never met him. He is a disgrace.” She added, “I always thought he liked me because I was Matt's girlfriend. He was never mean to me. He never did anything that made me think that he was racist.”
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McClain claimed she had known him since sixth grade but had only begun to communicate with him last December after he began hanging out with her boyfriend. Gendron, Casado, and McClain all graduated last year from the Susquehanna Valley High School in Conklin, New York. “I didn’t know he was a racist and whole-heartedly believed he was a good kid till Saturday,” Casado said. “After 11th grade, he was considered weird because he did not talk much and none of his other friends wanted to spend time with him.”
Buffalo shooting
Gendron, 18, drove 200 miles from his home in Conklin, near the New York-Pennsylvania border, to Buffalo, where he opened fire in a Tops Friendly supermarket, killing ten people and injuring two others. He was apprehended by quick-thinking cops and is said to have put his weapon to his own neck before cops convinced him to drop it. He chose that store, according to police, because it is located in a predominantly black area of Buffalo. He shot 12 people, 10 of whom were black.
Law enforcement discovered a 180-page manifesto that Gendron had posted online and set to go live shortly before he began his drive north after the shooting. The racist theory that whites are being replaced by non-whites, who must be driven out of the country or slaughtered, is at the heart of his writings. His rage was mostly directed at African-Americans and Jews. He aimed his gun at a white store manager, according to DailyMail.com, but walked away apologetic when he realized he was white.
Casado, 19, said Gendron dropped off five boxes of 5.66 mm high-caliber ammunition, a high-powered rifle, and two additional boxes of evidence at his mobile home on Friday, the day before the massacre. "I was infuriated because he thought my house was a storage unit because he said he had to rearrange his house." Gendron has killed 10 black people and is now facing charges for the murders.