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'Pause to remember' moment of silence to be held Saturday

Church bells toll to mark one week since the shooting

Moments of silence will take place Saturday to remember victims of the Tops shooting on Jefferson Avenue Saturday. This will mark one week since the shootings that claimed 10 lives.
People pray outside the scene of a shooting where police are responding at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., May 15, 2022. When police confronted Payton Gendron, the white man suspected of killing 10 Black people at the supermarket, he had an AR-15-style rifle and was cloaked in body armor. Yet officers talked to Gendron, convinced him to put down his weapon and arrested him without firing a single shot. Some people are asking why that type of treatment hasn't been afforded to Black people in encounters where they were killed over minor traffic infractions, or no infractions at all. Credit: Matt Rourke / AP

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Moments of silence will take place Saturday to remember victims of the Tops shooting on Jefferson Avenue. This will mark one week since the shootings that claimed 10 lives.

Mayor Byron Brown asks the community to join the city in observing a moment of silence at 2:28:57PM to 2:31:00 PM, the approximate moment of the shootings.


"Every corner of our community was impacted by this unspeakable tragedy and I'm asking the City of Good Neighbors and the rest of the nation and beyond to join us in a moment of unity and remembrance for the lives lost last weekend in Buffalo," says Brown in a statement. "Wherever you are on Saturday, for 123 seconds, I am asking that people pause to remember our friends, family and neighbors who died and were wounded, in thissenseless shooting. This is a difficult time for Buffalo, but let's rally around each other, lift each other up, and continue to move forward as a strong, united, and loving community."

Tops will also hold a moment of silence at its stores at 2:30pm today. "To honor the lives of those killed, we are encouraging people to join our Tops stores in a collective moment of tribute and reflection this Saturday, May 21 at 2:30 pm, seven days after this tragic shooting," a Tops statement says.

Tops says there is no timeline for reopening the Jefferson Avenue store.

Church bells toll to mark one week since the shooting