Buffalo grocery store shooting: Suspect worked at hometown market in months before 'racially-motivated' attack

Buffalo grocery store shooting: Suspect worked at hometown market in months before 'racially-motivated' attack

CONKLIN, N.Y. - The upstate New York man blamed for driving a few hours to release a racially persuaded assault at a Buffalo supermarket held a temporary occupation at a market in his old neighborhood around four months prior, the entrepreneur's affirmed to Fox News Digital.

Payton Gendron, 18, worked at Conklin Reliable Market for around 90 days before he quit approximately four months prior, John, the storekeeper, told Fox News Digital on Monday. He declined to give his last name.

"He put in his fourteen days' notification and left enjoying a positive outlook," he said. "No one realized him well. He minded his own business."

The proprietor said he was unable to remark further.

In the interim, a neighbor at Gendron's Conklin, N.Y., home told Fox News Digital the Gendrons were "not a terrible family."

"They're calm," said the man, who requested to stay unknown. "No one had any craving of anything like this, that is without a doubt."