Biden Visits Buffalo After Shooting, Says ‘Evil Will Not Win’

President Joe Biden went to a city in New York on May 17, visiting where 10 people were gunned down over the weekend.

Biden, joined by First Lady Jill Biden, went to the Tops Market Memorial before meeting with families of those who were killed, law enforcement officers, and others at the Delavan Grider Community Center.

In a speech after the meeting, the president described the final moments of some of the dead, including Celestine Chaney, 65, a brain cancer survivor who went to Tops to buy strawberries to make her favorite shortcake.

Biden said he and his wife brought a message: that in America, “evil will not win.”

“Hate will not prevail. And white supremacy will not have the last word,” he added.

The suspect in the shooting, which also left three injured, was identified as Payton Gendron, an 18-year-old white male.

According to a manifesto posted online, Gendron said he chose Buffalo because of strict laws governing gun ownership there and because it has a large black population. He also called the flood of illegal immigration “an invasion” and noted that a number of countries are seeing their white population diminished because of factors such as low birth rates coupled with a rising share of immigrants. Gendron described himself as a white supremacist.