(HINGHAM, Mass.) — Multiple people were injured after a car crashed into an Apple store in Hingham, Massachusetts, Monday morning, according to a law enforcement official.
The number of people hurt was not immediately clear.
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(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) — Five people were killed and dozens others were injured in a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado, officials said.
The suspect, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, allegedly began shooting with a long rifle as soon as he walked into Club Q in Colorado Springs late Saturday night, Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said.
At least two people, whom authorities described as heroes, then confronted Aldrich and fought with him, which saved more lives, police said.
The shooting is being investigated as a hate crime.
Bartender Michael Anderson told ABC News he heard pops, and when he looked up he saw “the shadow of a grown man wielding a rifle.”
The first 911 call came in at 11:56 p.m. Saturday and an officer was dispatched to the scene seconds later, Lt. Pamela Castro, spokesperson for the Colorado Springs Police Department, told reporters. The first officer arrived at midnight, and the suspect was detained by 12:02 a.m., Castro said.
At least two guns, including a long gun, were recovered from the scene, police said.
In addition to the five victims who were killed, at least 25 people were injured, according to Colorado Springs city officials.
Aldrich was injured and remains in the hospital, police said. His release will be determined by medical personnel, Castro said.
He’s facing five counts of murder and five counts of bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury.
The owner of Club Q, Nic Grzecka, told ABC News that they didn’t recognize the suspect and had never seen him inside their business.
Active shooter protocol was also activated, Grzecka said, which is something Club Q has had in place since the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida.
Club Q hosts a weekly drag show and live DJ on Saturday nights, according to its website. The club described the shooting as a “hate attack,” saying it was “devastated by the senseless attack on our community.”
The club is a safe haven for the LGBTQ community, Vasquez said, adding that he is saddened and heartbroken by the attack that took place there.
Aldrich was arrested in a June 2021 bomb threat incident after the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office was alerted that he was in possession of a homemade bomb, law enforcement officers briefed on the investigation told ABC News.
He was charged with two counts of felony menacing and three counts of first-degree kidnapping, but no explosives were found in his home, Colorado Springs radio station KRDO reported.
Colorado’s red flag law, which went into effect in 2020, allows relatives, household members and law enforcement to ask a judge to order the seizure of a gun owner’s weapons if that owner is believed to be a risk to themself or others.
It is unclear whether the law would have stopped the suspect from targeting the club, El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder told ABC News.
Elder did not recall the circumstances surrounding Aldrich’s 2021 arrest, he said.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis tweeted that he is “devastated.”
“My heart breaks for the family and friends of those lost, injured and traumatized in this terrible shooting,” he said.
“Our prayers and thoughts are with all the victims and their families and friends,” the club said in a statement posted on Facebook. “We thank the quick reactions of heroic customers that subdued the gunman and ended this hate attack.”
The shooting unfolded on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance.
President Joe Biden said in a statement that “the LGBTQI+ community has been subjected to horrific hate violence in recent years,” drawing comparisons to the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando.
“Places that are supposed to be safe spaces of acceptance and celebration should never be turned into places of terror and violence. Yet it happens far too often,” Biden said. “We must drive out the inequities that contribute to violence against LGBTQI+ people. We cannot and must not tolerate hate.”
Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper tweeted that the LGBTQ community needs to be protected from “this hate.”
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet tweeted that he was “sending strength to those who were injured, the survivors, and Colorado’s LGBTQ community.”
“As we seek justice for this unimaginable act, we must do more to protect the LGBTQ community and stand firm against discrimination and hate in every form,” Bennett said.
“Our hearts are broken for the victims of the horrific tragedy in Colorado Springs, and their loved ones,” GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement Sunday. “This unspeakable attack has robbed countless people of their friends and family and an entire community’s sense of safety. You can draw a straight line from the false and vile rhetoric about LGBTQ people spread by extremists and amplified across social media, to the nearly 300 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced this year, to the dozens of attacks on our community like this one.”
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(NEW YORK) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Monday that the 21-year-old man arrested at Penn Station over the weekend was not making idle threats about attacking a New York City synagogue.
Christopher Brown, from the town of Aquebogue on Long Island, told investigators he has a “sick personality” and tweeted that he was going to ask a priest “if I should become a husband or shoot up a synagogue and die,” according to the criminal complaint.
Police recovered a Glock semi-automatic firearm with an extended 30-round magazine and laser sight, a large hunting knife, a black ski mask and a Nazi armband, prosecutors said.
“This was not an idle threat,” Adams said. “This was a real threat.”
The New York City Police Department, the New York State Police and departments on Long Island have increased security at synagogues and other Jewish institutions as a result of the threats and Adams said the extra protection for the city’s 1.6 million Jews would continue through Hanukkah.
“We’re always concerned about copycats,” Adams said. “No one should ever feel threatened walking into their synagogue or place of worship.”
Brown and another man, Matthew Mahrer, 22, were arrested Friday night after Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officers spotted them entering Penn Station following a notice from the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
“They had full descriptions from the other law enforcement,” MTA chief Janno Lieber said.
Brown was said to have posed a threat to an unidentified synagogue, according to the FBI. Mahrer was subsequently identified as an associate.
“We have no information there is any continued threat to the Jewish community in connection with this case,” said the FBI’s Michael Driscoll.
Brown and Mahrer have each pleaded not guilty to state charges. Federal prosecutors are still deciding whether additional charges are appropriate.
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(NEW YORK) — Doctors say some hospitals are reaching their breaking points as cases of flu and RSV continue to rise across the United States.
Respiratory viruses have been surging throughout the country, appearing earlier than usual and rapidly increasing every month.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 11,000 RSV infections were diagnosed in September 2022, rising to 40,000 for October.
Meanwhile, for flu, cases, hospitalizations and deaths have doubled for the second week in a row, CDC data shows.
This has led to some hospitals running out of beds, being forced to treat children in emergency rooms and hallways and seeing patients that are much sicker than usual compared to past years.
“It’s really unbelievable the number of patients that we have seen,” Dr. Juan Salazar, physician in chief and infectious diseases specialist at Connecticut Children’s Hospital in Hartford, told ABC News. “The number of kids that are coming in, children under the age of five that we have seen come to our emergency department has been like nothing I’ve ever seen in my 25 years practicing here at Connecticut Children’s and frankly, over my 30 years of practicing infectious diseases.”
“It’s been unprecedented, the strain on the staff and the parents and the children and the nurses has been really, truly unbelievable,” he said.
Some hospitals are completely full
Salazar said his hospital has fully reached capacity and has been that way for the last five to six weeks. The emergency department also has many more patients than it has beds.
“So, our emergency department has 45 beds at any given time,” he said. “This past three, four weeks we’ve had 110 kids in the emergency department. So, it’s almost three times as many beds as we have capacity for.”
Salazar said he has had to call on specialty providers who do not usually treat emergency department patients to help ER staff.
Connecticut Children’s is not the only hospital experiencing these circumstances. Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, is also seeing more patients than it has capacity for.
“Not only are the viruses hitting earlier in the year, they’re kind of coming back with a vengeance that we haven’t seen, because we’ve been so isolated for the prior two years,” Dr. Maxie Brewer, a hospitalist at Cook Children’s, told ABC News. “And so, the biggest issue we’re kind of running into is running out of hospital beds and long wait times and our ERs and urgent care secondary to the volume of patients that are being affected by these viruses.”
According to Brewer, the ER is seeing about 500 patients a day, which is much higher than normal. This is leading to longer wait times and patients waiting longer to be admitted to the hospital.
Patients sicker than ever
Also different this season is the number of older children who have fallen ill with the virus. Brewer said in past seasons, she usually sees infants under 6 months old with RSV, but she is seeing more toddlers affected and those without a history of pulmonary problems or lung problems.
Brewer remembers one patient, a child around 2 or 3 years old who was born healthy and with no history of asthma or lung disease.
“[The child] started getting ill and did not want to drink as much, parents are noticing a little bit increased work of breathing and came into our ER because of it,” she said.
The child was diagnosed with RSV and needed to be placed on high-flow oxygen, which is different from standard oxygen by providing warmed and humidified gas, which allows oxygen to flow at higher rates.
“I’m not used to seeing kids that are older without a history of asthma and this poor child just working so hard to breathe and needing that extra support having to go the ICU, which is just so different than prior years,” Brewer said. “Normally, I’m able to give them a little bit of oxygen and the older kids are just able to pull through, and this year it’s just been hard because seeing kids like that working so hard to breathe.”
Burned out health care staff
This surge putting strain on hospital systems is also contributing to health care burnout.
Nurses who might normally be taking care of four or five patients at a time are suddenly taking care of several more patients.
“We plan for the normal volumes [of patients], even the high volume, but nothing like this,” Salazar said. “And so that puts a lot of strain on the health care personnel that are already tired coming out of COVID.”
Brewer explained health care workers are trying to balance taking care of sick children, tending to parents frustrated by long wait times and their personal lives.
“We are trying our best to kind of be there for every child that needs us,” she said. “But it has led to a lot of stress amongst physicians and nurses, respiratory therapists and everybody working in the hospitals, because we are seeing so many more than we normally do, are working longer hours, we’re kind of working with more sick kids than we normally see.”
Brewer continued, “This is the most patients I’ve ever seen in my career, which leads to a lot of stress. And you want to be there, you want to help. But you also need to realize you’ve got to take time for yourself.”
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(NEW YORK) — A New Zealand-led team of marine geologists investigating an underwater volcano that erupted on Jan. 15 in the Tongan archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean have found that it was the “largest ever recorded” with modern equipment.
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, which triggered a tsunami and a sonic boom that twice-circled the globe, was captured in dramatic satellite imagery which showed huge cloud of ash and steam thrust into the atmosphere.
A team of oceanographers, scientists and marine geologists headed by the New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), with assistance from a robot boat remotely operated in the UK by Sea-Kit International, have conducted the “fullest investigation yet” into the underwater Tongan volcano. They discovered that almost 10 cubic kilometres of seafloor was displaced — the equivalent of 2.6 million Olympic-sized pools.
“The eruption reached record heights, being the first we’ve ever seen to break through into the mesosphere,” said Kevin Mackay, NWA marine geologist. “It was like a shotgun blast directly into the sky.”
“While this eruption was large, one of the biggest since Krakatoa in 1883, there have been others of similar magnitude since then that didn’t behave in the same way. The difference here is that it’s an underwater volcano and its also part of the reason we got such big tsunami waves,” added Mackay.
The team of scientists also unraveled new information into the volcano’s underwater pyroclastic flows — a mixture of hot, dense volcanic ash, lava fragments and gas ejected from the volcano — through examining sediment debris found 80 km away.
“The sheer force of the flows is astonishing — we saw deposits in valleys beyond the volcano, which is where the international cable lies, meaning they had enough power to flow uphill over huge ridges and then back down again,” said Dr. Emily Lane, Principal NIWA scientist.
The volcano was also found to have injected an immense plume of water vapor into the Earth’s stratosphere. According to NASA, only the 2015 Calbuco eruption in Chile and the 2008 Kasatochi Island eruption in Alaska released significant amounts of high-altitude water vapor.
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” Luis Millán, atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement in August.
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano’s crater was also found to be 700 meters deeper than before the eruption.
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(NEW YORK) — Seven-year-old Jax Ramirez was born a “typical little boy,” according to his mom — but now, he’s one in 1.6 million.
Due to an extremely rare genetic disease, he dreams of the day he can attend school in person — and with a bone marrow transplant, he may have the chance.
“He’s a cyber student,” his mother, Missy Ramirez, said. “He just hops on [Zoom] every day with a smile. He’s loving. He loves his friends. His biggest wish is that he someday can see his friends in person.”
Jax was diagnosed with IPEX syndrome last year. The symptoms of the autoimmune disease include diarrhea, diabetes and eczema in young patients, according to the National Center for Advancing Translation Sciences.
The only potential treatment for the disease is a bone marrow transplant. More than a year after his diagnosis, Jax is still searching for his life-saving donor.
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Missy Ramirez said symptoms became noticeable when her son was about 2 and a half years old, and he started to have fits of “rapid breathing.” Jax was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
“Nobody in my family has Type 1 diabetes. This is not something that I would have ever put on my mom radar,” she said. “It just didn’t sit well with me.”
Missy Ramirez said other things began to “pop up” and that her son seemed to get gravely ill, too easily.
“We would always end up in the hospital,” she said. “It was never just a little tiny cold.”
She said the common hand, foot and mouth disease turned into a hospital stay for Jax. Then, a runny nose from the flu precipitously turned into a weeklong medically induced coma.
“I had been researching people, doctors, specialists to help me find what the answer was because I knew it just couldn’t be bad luck anymore,” Missy Ramirez said.
Jax was eventually diagnosed with IPEX syndrome in October 2021. Missy Ramirez said they quickly discovered that there were no matches for her son on the bone marrow registry.
“The more diverse you are, the worse the outcomes are simply because there’s not enough representation of people of color on the registry,” she said.
“It was that moment I decided that I can’t just sit by idly hoping that somebody will just magically join this registry and save my son,” she added.
Missy Ramirez and a few close friends started The Match for Jax, a foundation to find a match for her son and others like him. Nearly a year later, the group has registered more than 4,000 people in her son’s honor, but they’re still looking for Jax’s match.
“Every family should have a match. Every person of color should have a voice,” she said. “Every person should be represented and every person should have a second chance at life.”
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(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) — The attack at a gay bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado, over the weekend has left the local LGBTQ community grieving.
At least five people were killed and dozens were injured in a late night shooting on Nov. 19, the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors the memory of the lives of transgender people who were victims of discriminatory violence.
The targeted bar, Club Q, was hosting its weekly drag show, according to its website.
“Club Q is in shock, and in deep mourning, with the family and friends who had loved ones senselessly taken from them,” the club said in a statement sent to ABC News. “We condemn the horrific violence that shattered an evening of celebration for all in the LGBTQ community of Colorado Springs and our allies.”
An alleged motive has not yet been announced. The shooting is being investigated as a hate crime.
“There are no words that will undo the horror that continues to devastate our communities,” said Nadine Bridges, the executive director of LGBTQ advocacy group One Colorado.
She continued, “Our safe spaces continue to become places of grief, trauma, and sorrow due to gun violence, mass shootings, and the general disrespect for our human condition. Not one more life should be taken or lost. No one should feel unsafe to celebrate or live authentically in public.”
The tragedy comes amid a wave of Republican-led legislative efforts to restrict LGBTQ rights and health care. More than 300 bills and policies have been introduced in the last year to ban gender-affirming trans health care and LGBTQ content in schools.
“This is what happens when vitriol against us is left unchecked, when LGBTQ+ people are slowly being legislated out of existence, and everyone from legislators to hate groups to social media users use the same vile talking points about us, every day. This is what happens,” PFLAG National, an LGBTQ advocacy group, told ABC News in a statement. “Book bans; Don’t say gay; Violent protests at Pride; Bans on care for trans kids; Hundreds of pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation; It always leads to this.”
Some Republicans have also used false “pedophilia” claims to attack the LGBTQ community.
Colorado has seen its own share of anti-LGBTQ legislation and rhetoric from local leaders, including Rep. Lauren Boebert, who has introduced a bill to prohibit tax dollars from being used on research concerning gender affirming care.
LGBTQ groups are calling on local, state and federal lawmakers to “go beyond statements and condolences and take swift, exacting action to ensure public safety,” Bridges said.
Acts or threats of violence against the LGBTQ have been seen across the country in recent months – including bomb threats toward Boston Children’s Hospital, which offers gender-affirming care, an alleged riot plot from white nationalists at a Pride parade in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and more.
“There’s actually a term for this. It’s called stochastic terrorism. And this is a documented phenomenon where when levels of hateful rhetoric towards a community rises, that it’s followed inevitably by levels of hateful actions,” Kevin Jennings, CEO of LGBTQ legal advocacy group Lambda Legal, told ABC News.
“I’m sure there will be meaningless expressions of thoughts and prayers. And frankly, my message to those people is just: please keep your thoughts and prayers. Take some meaningful action,” he added.
Though fear, confusion and grief weigh heavy on the LGBTQ community in Colorado Springs, local groups say they refuse to hide.
“Loved ones’ lives and their wholeness were violently taken,” PFLAG Colorado Springs board of directors said in a statement to ABC News. “When voices of influence spread fear and hate, the risk is the loss of kindness and the loss of our humanity. Our love is stronger than that.”
As the community tries to heal, the Colorado Healing Fund, a nonprofit founded to establish a secure way for people to donate to victims of mass casualty crimes in the state, will be collecting donations for survivors and families of victims of the tragedy.
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(NEW YORK) — The nation’s largest rail union on Monday voted down a tentative contract brokered by the White House, raising the possibility of a nationwide strike next month that could cripple the U.S. economy.
The SMART Transportation Division, or SMART-TD, which represents about 28,000 conductors, rejected the contract in a vote that garnered record turnout, the union said Monday. The contract was nixed by a slim margin, as just 50.8% of workers voted against it.
The second-largest rail union, made up of engineers, voted in favor of the contract on Monday, splitting the top rail unions, which represent roughly half of the industry’s workers.
The results arrive roughly a month after the nation’s third-largest rail union rejected the White House-brokered contract.
A nationwide strike is expected next month unless the contract is ratified by each of the 11 rail unions, since all of the unions have vowed not to cross the picket line in the event of a work stoppage. So far, four unions have ratified the agreement.
“SMART-TD members with their votes have spoken, it’s now back to the bargaining table for our operating craft members,” SMART-TD President Jeremy Ferguson said in a statement.
“This can all be settled through negotiations and without a strike. A settlement would be in the best interests of the workers, the railroads, shippers and the American people,” he added.
In a statement, SMART-TD did not provide the reason behind the members’ disapproval. Previously, unions have rejected the tentative contract due to frustration with compensation and working conditions, particularly a lack of paid sick days.
The National Carriers’ Conference Committee, or NCCC, the group representing the freight railroad companies, said in a statement that the risk of a nationwide strike next month will require the companies to start taking steps to prepare for the disruption.
“A national rail strike would severely impact the economy and the public,” the NCCC said. “Now, the continued, near-term threat of one will require that freight railroads and passenger carriers soon begin to take responsible steps to safely secure the network in advance of any deadline.”
The tentative contract included a 24% compounded wage increase and $5,000 in lump-sum payments, the NCCC said last month.
American railway companies and unions reached a tentative labor agreement in September amid the threat of strikes. That agreement came after 20 consecutive hours of negotiations led by U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh at his office in Washington, D.C., Walsh said.
The agreement improved the time-off policies at the rail companies, which made up a key sticking point in the negotiations, BLET and SMART-TD said in a statement in September.
A potential strike could lead to $2 billion a day in lost economic output, according to the Association of American Railroads, which lobbies on behalf of railway companies.
Rail is critical to the entire goods side of the economy, including agriculture, manufacturing, retail and warehousing. Freight railroads are responsible for transporting 40% of the nation’s long-haul freight and a work stoppage could endanger those shipments.
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(MOSCOW, Idaho) — More than 100 investigators, officers and support staff have fielded about 600 tips since the murders last week of four University of Idaho students, officials said on Sunday.
As the tips pour in, each has been processed, vetted and cleared, according to the Moscow Police Department, which has five support staff members dedicated to the case.
“Thirty-eight interviews have been conducted with individuals who may have information about the murders,” the department said in a Sunday briefing update.
Investigators have released timelines detailing the whereabouts of the victims and the other students who lived at the off-campus house. No arrests have been made by authorities.
Investigators said they’ve also conducted autopsies and have searched for surveillance video. They’ve asked for tips from anyone “who observed suspicious behavior.”
“Currently, no suspects are in custody and no weapon has been located,” investigators said.
The victims who were found dead on Nov. 13 have been identified as Ethan Chapin, 20, of Conway, Washington; Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Xana Kernodle, 20, of Avondale, Arizona; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho.
ABC News contributor and former FBI agent Brad Garrett told Good Morning America on Monday that the killer or killers may have been familiar with the layout of the house.
“It tells me that someone came into the house with a comfort level — that they probably knew their way around the house,” Garrett said.
The Moscow Police Department said it has dedicated four detectives, 24 patrol officers and five members of its support staff to the investigation. They’ve been joined by a wave of outside investigators, who’ve taken over Moscow, a college town with about 25,000 residents, since the killings were first discovered last Sunday.
The FBI sent 22 investigators to Moscow, according to the local police. Another 20 agents were working on the case but located in Treasure Valley, Idaho; Salt Lake City, Utah; and West Virginia. Two members of an FBI behavior analysis unit were also working on the case, police said.
Investigators also said a 911 call came from inside the residence and was made on one of the surviving roommates’ cellphones. They initially told authorities that someone was passed out and wouldn’t wake up, officials said.
“Multiple people talked with the 911 dispatcher before a Moscow Police officer arrived at the location,” officials said. “Officers entered the residence and found the four victims on the second and third floors.”
Garrett said investigators should be broadening their search outside the victims’ immediate circle of friends and family.
“You’re going to have to start spreading out to people they had just a casual relationship with,” he said.
ABC News’ Emily Shapiro, Melissa Gaffney, Marilyn Heck, Izzy Alvarez and Flor Tolentino contributed to this report.
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(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — A change of plea hearing for the suspect in the Buffalo supermarket shooting has been adjourned, with no new date immediately set, a court official told ABC News on Sunday.
Payton Gendron’s previously scheduled court appearance for Monday in Erie County Court was adjourned due to the snow in the region, according to the court official.
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown appeared to confirm reports Thursday that Gendron is expected to plead guilty.
Attorneys representing families of victims have also said they’ve been told to expect a guilty plea.
“I think it’s good that this individual is pleading guilty,” Brown had said in response to a question at the end of a storm briefing he attended with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Gendron faces 25 state charges in connection with the May 14 mass shooting at the Tops grocery store. Ten Black people were killed in what authorities said was a racially motivated attack.
The indictment was the first in the state to invoke a statute that comingled terrorism and hate crimes.
Gendron, who is white, also faces federal hate crime charges in connection with the shooting.
The 19-year-old is accused of planning the massacre for months, including driving to the store to sketch the layout and count the number of Black people present, according to federal prosecutors.
He pleaded not guilty in both cases during arraignments in state and federal court.
Last month, the New York Attorney General’s Office released a scathing report accusing dark web platforms of “radicalizing” the teenage suspect. The accused shooter consumed voluminous amounts of racist and violent content before broadcasting the deadly attack online, according to the report.
An Erie County grand jury returned a 25-count indictment against Gendron in June. The highest charge he faces is domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate in the first degree, a crime enacted in the state in November 2020, according to Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn.
Flynn said Gendron is the first person in the state ever charged with the crime.
“That charge only has one sentence if, in fact, the defendant is found guilty of that charge and that is life without parole,” Flynn said in June. “There’s no minimum. There’s no maximum. That is the only punishment on that charge.”
In addition to the domestic terrorism charge, the 25-count indictment includes 10 counts of first-degree murder, 10 counts of second-degree murder as a hate crime, three counts of attempted murder as a hate crime and one count of criminal possession of a weapon.
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