764 Part 3 - The Buffalo Mass Shooter's Connection to Satanic Online Communities

**EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING** In 2022, 18-year-old Payton Gendron unleashed a devastating attack that left 10 black shoppers dead and many pressing questions. Two years later, we finally have answers.

On the afternoon of May 14, 2022, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, an antisocial white kid from an upper middle-class New York neighborhood, donned body armor and a military helmet, picked up an AR-15 covered in racial epithets, strapped a GoPro to his head and drove about 200 miles to a predominantly black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. Once there, Gendron pulled up to a TOPS grocery store and hit “go live” on the Twitch livestreaming app moments before unleashing a devastating attack against the shoppers. The resulting livestream video looked like something straight out of a Call of Duty video game - a third person view of a rifle firing at people as they fell lifelessly to the ground. Gendron targeted black people. At one point in the video, he aimed his gun at a person, saw that they were white, and muttered “sorry” before leaving the person alive and continuing his rampage. Ten lives were tragically lost that day.

Gendron was apprehended by police at the scene and ultimately pled guilty to state charges which included first degree murder, domestic terrorism and hate crimes. He was handed 11 consecutive life sentences on the state level, but a pending federal case against Gendron leaves the death penalty on the table. And while the prosecutors have insisted this shooting was an open and shut case of racially motivated violent extremism, many questions were left unanswered.

One of these questions, which was largely ignored by the mainstream media, pertained to Gendron’s online network. Gendron had extensive online contact with a couple of shadowy provocateurs in the weeks preceding the attack. One of them, who he called “Saint Sandman”, gave him advice ranging from what type of gun parts and gear to buy to how to plan the timing of his attack so that he wouldn’t go to jail (advice which Gendron ultimately ignored). Sandman played a role in indoctrinating Gendron with neo-fascist ideologies reminiscent of the Christchurch, New Zealand shooter, including The Great Replacement theory. To top it off, early reports on the shooting mentioned that several people joined Gendron’s Discord server about 30 minutes before the shooting began. One of those individuals was said to be a retired FBI agent.