Buffalo, New York. It's one of those bitterly cold places like right on the Great Lakes where it's

not unheard of for there to be a big snowfall even like leans of the spring in May. But on Saturday,

May 14th, it was actually a proper warm spring day. Her old young, who was a retired substitute

teacher, she ran a local food pantry there, had just finished up lunch with her sister-in-law,

who dropped her off at the top's friendly market. The top's friendly market is in a neighborhood called

Mastin Park in East Buffalo. That neighborhood is mostly poor, mostly black, and just to situate

us some more. Buffalo routinely ranks as one of the most racially segregated metro regions in the

entire United States. That top's friendly market is also in a food desert. There's no other super

markets nearby. Residents have been pushing for years to get that one built. So most of the people

in the neighborhood, people like Miss Perly, had to make trips there pretty regularly. People like

Ruth Woodfield. She was 86. She had just been visiting her husband, who was living in a nursing

home near the supermarket. She just dropped by to pick up a few items. Carrefter Mastin was also at

the supermarket. She was 72. She was headstrong, her family joked, that she was a, quote, committee

of one. She was a community activist, and she regularly wrote letters about issues with the day

to the local black press, including a letter to the editor about the need for tougher gun control

laws. He wore Patterson with 67. He was a father of three. He was a taxi driver. He was waiting

outside of the top super market for passengers. Celestine Cheney was 65. She was at the market with

her sister. She was an avid bingo player, a grandmother of six. She was at tops for some shrimp

for some strawberry shortcake. Roberta Drolley was 32. She worked at her family's restaurant nearby.

Andre McNeill was 53. He was at tops to pick up a surprise birthday cake for his son,

who just turned three. Marguess Morrison was 52. He was a school bus aide. His family said he was

kind of a sneakerhead, and it was moving night with his wife, so he was at the tops picking up

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