i'm not gonna cry anymore. ♪ tonight healing from hate after a white supremacist targeted a mostly black neighborhood at tops supermarket in east buffalo killing 10. >> to get killed by a gun, that's just, the devil came to town. >> one year later inside the community with families as they channel their grief. >> haven't been sober since he passed away. i drink every day. i don't sleep. >> into activism. >> we're more than hurt. we're angry. we're mad as hell. because this should have never happened. >> hoping to inspire change. >> we have the power. it's not something that's outside of us.

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♪ good evening. more than 650 mass shootings in just the last year alone in this country. but it is rare we get to see what happens to a community in the aftermath. east buffalo in the year since a whitest targeted the poor and mostly black neighborhood. here's nightline co-anchor byron pitts. >> i've been black my whole life. i've been treated differently my whole life because of that. and my mother and my father protected us and kept us safe. i wasn't able to do that for my mother. her name is garnel whitfield jr., i'm the son of mrs. ruth elizabeth whitfield, 86 years old, the eldest victim of the

buffalo massacre. she was killed by an 18 year old white supremacist, her and nine other pillars of our community. >> reporter: heartache is its own hill, gar nell whitfield has been climbing it every day since a gunman showed up a career ago. >> witnesses say a gunman dressed in army fatigues walked in and opened fire. >> reporter: the gunman killing ten people and injuring others in the tops market on may 14, 2022. the 19 year old killer saying he carried out the attack for the future of the white race, targeting the east side of buffalo predominately black working class neighborhood. at the same time the horror captured the nation. >> the impact of the shooting resonating throughout the country. >> reporter: cameras descended on the city. >> say shear tragedy in the city

of buffalo. >> reporter: but as the months ticked on and the cameras disappeared our cameras stayed. abc followed the residents of east buffalo over the last year documenting their mourning and healing and what they want to come from this moment. >> you can't sit here and be comfortable and pray. you've got to do something. >> reporter: a place where rage became resilience, victims advocates. in the wounds of racism and neglect now healed scars of restoration. the shooting targeted this community because it was black and poor. he picked the wrong neighborhood. they turned tragedy into a turning point. >> i can't walk a mile in her shoes. she's much more intelligent than i will ever be. but i can volunteer. >> we want this to serve as pilot for other areas that are undergoing the same type of issues. >> we have the power. it's not something that's outside of us. we keep looking for somebody. nobody's coming in to save us.

>> reporter: we first met with garnell last august 3rd months after the shooting. >> i've got a lot of favorite memories of my mom. obviously member separable to me than the last time i was with my mom. one of the thing i came up with for mother's day is i was going to build her a raised garden on that friday before she passed i actually finished the garden. she sat out in the yard with me several times. and on that saturday morning when i -- about 8:00 in the morning i came back and i knocked on her door and she didn't answer the door and i wasn't sure if she was up or not. i said, okay, i'm note going to wake her up, i'll meet her up at the nursing home which we often did. i never saw her

>> reporter: across the city barbara massie maps is also holding on to all that's left of her sister kat massie, the memories. >> everything she loved is here. i just come down once a month and dust it but kat kept us together, she made us laugh, she made us think. kat would just love people. >> her sister's home just a few doors down from her own. >> she made this into a closet. as you can see my sister loved hats. >> reporter: frozen in time. >> this is one of the only things we didn't take down. she would have these post-it notes. i didn't read this before. of course may 2022. this is coming down. >> reporter: barb's memory of that day seared in her mind. >> i literally was coming out the yard from cutting kat's grass. my neighbor doug was coming down the street and he said barbara did you hear they're shooting at tops? i said our tops.

i left the lawn mower got in the car raised up to he on-topps was maybe seven minutes from us. >> reporter: her older sister kat was shopping at the grocery store that day. >> it was just wall to wall police officers, no one yell, no crying, no pushing. everybody was just in shock. and i just kept making my way. could you just see if my sister kat massie, i described her. i described her, they heard me so many times that the fbi agent remembered who i was when he told me i was coming back eight hours later to let me know, that's how many times i worked the crowd. but right before we buried kat we didn't know he shot her in the back of her head two times and they had to use paperer ma shea to put her head back together. he said he was a mortician, i don't know how many years, and he never in his life, ever, seen nothing like that before. she was a big advocate about gun control. i don't know if itas tase,ut sh

bigrt katas a big advocate. and then to get killed by a gun, that's just, the devil came town. >> you don't know a dam thing about black people. >> reporter: at sentencing, barb's son demone was overwhelmed. >> i wanted to kill his ass. >> i know. >> sorry to say it like that but i'm trying to get my cousin to go up there with me. i'm going to distract and we have to do something to this man for all the pain. >> for demone and so many others time cannot heal all wounds. >> not only my aunt, i lost my friends too, roberto's one of my best friends, mercury's one of my best friends, these are people i see every day. >> two blocks away. >> you understand? i haven't been sober since they

passed away. i drink every day. i don't sleep. each particular family that's all been through this tragedy, there's no former hill possible. >> reporter: for barb she said channelling her pain into activism helped carrying kat's activism in her. >> kat was a good person that cared about what's going on in her community. she cared about people. she wanted things to be better for everyone. everything kat did was for the community. she worked with the council, she worked with the school, she worked with the homeless. she was everywhere. >> reporter: she said she and her sisters believe they haven't done enough to invest in the community and it's now up to those who live there to make change. >> just as kat years and years and years talking to the dot. she wanted the street to be

streamlined just like every place else, suburbs, why shouldn't we have them. that's what she said, why shouldn't we have the trees. >> reporter: when we come back turning toward activism. >> we're mad as hell because this should have never happened. >> reporter: and the community leaders addressing racism in the leaders addressing racism in the underserved. a once-daily pill. when uc got unpredictable, i got rapid symptom relief with rinvoq. and left bathroom urgency behind. check. when uc got in my way, i got lasting, steroid-free remission with rinvoq. check. and when my gastro saw damage, rinvoq helped visibly repair the colon lining. check. rapid symptom relief. lasting, steroid-free remission. and a chance to visibly repair the colon lining. check. check. and check. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections and blood clots, some fatal; cancers, including lymphoma and skin cancer;

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nightline buffalo, healing from hate saving ourself continues. here again, byron pitts. >> reporter: buffalo is one of the most segregated urban centers in the united states and the high concentration of blacks

what is attracted the racist suitor to the city of good neighbors on may 14, 2022. this white supremist knew that only one supermarket serviced the east side. 68,000 black residents. tops sits in an urban landscape that reflects the ugly realities of buffalo's brand of structural racism. >> reporter: the east side of buffalo where top resides was once a vibrant and prosperous neighborhood. home to the buffalo bills war memorial stadium an economic engine for the community. >> buffalo's original black community was situated on the lower east side in and around the water front stadium. and so as the population poured into the city, they began to move up that east side corridor where housing was available and

vacant. >> reporter: but the neighborhood took a turn after the 1967 race riots leading to white flight and relocation of the stadium to the suburbs. this after decades of a racist practice called red lining where banks seldom approved mortgage or business loans to community of colors red lining was made illegal in 19 68 but its legacy still remains. >> you walk around tops store, you will see this upstanding dilapidated housing, the unkemp vacant lots, the cracked and unrepaired sidewalk. an environment that produces images of foreloan and neglect that's what i mean by underdevelopment. >> if you were to look at a map of buffalo and you wanted to know which parts were suffering the most, it would be pretty easy. if you want to know where blacks folks are, it's easy to find them. that is why when the master took

place here at tops, it was easy for him to find us because buffalo is so separated and segregated. >> reporter: alexander wright is a resident of east buffalo one of the many who stepped in to help in the days and months following the tact. tops was the only supermarket serving the east side neighborhood and many couldn't or wouldn't go back to the scene of that hate crime. >> we're hearing from people who are fearful to go back into the grocery store. so we made deliveries to those folks on the door, and we'll do it as long as they want us to do it. >> reporter: brings her fresh produce each day but his mission is much bigger. he's hoping to combat the legacy of racism through access to fresh food. >> to me it was the issue that had the most immediate impact.

>> stephanie: we have 18 deliveries for thursday. >> he's the founder of the african american boone co-op. >> 200 deliveries for next week. let's grab the stuff and do what we do. >> reporter: they deliver fresh produce and hold open air markets throughout the city. . >> reporter: the inspiration was the lack of black ownership in the inner cities predominately populated by african americans. the fact that most food-related illnesses affect americans at a higher rate and the fact there were glass ceilings so you saw african americans working in stores but usually low level, at most mid level. the grocery store has been needed for more than 50 years. >> his latest project building a brick and mortar grocery store

right here in east buffalo less than a mile from tops. >> people are frustrated. it's taking longer than they wanted it to take. >> it was often after the tops shooting that they pledged the majority of the money funding his project. >> we have in new york, we have 200,000 coming from the usda. the store is going to be about 5,000 square feet when it's all said and done. >> reporter: the new store is set to open in summer 2024. >> we're very, very happy to be able to provide healthy options for folks wit distce, and a site that's been victimized by food apartheid. >> reporter: in the ml' mothe kt tops, he, too, leaned into activism. >> my family made a conscious

decision when this happened that we would not go night and would not be allowed to remember our mother as a victim and we're not going to live -- that requires us to speak out, it retires us to work. >> stephanie: service has always been central to garneau's life. he worked as the buffalo fire commissioner for seven years before retiring in 2017. but now he has a different sense of duty. on june 7, 2022, he appeared before the u.s. senate judiciary committee in washington calling on lawmakers to act on white supremacy. >> we're more than hurt. we're angry. because this should have never happened. every enforcement agency charged with protecting the homeland have risks and determined white supremacy is the number one threat to the homeland and yet nothing's been done to mid gate it

. before my mom i wasn't an activist. i wasn't out talking about these things in the manner that i should. i wasn't using my platform or my voice for that purpose. >> reporter: at least $1.1 billion in state and federal if you understand have been ear marked for improvements in east buffalo. garnell like many in the community want a say in how that money will be spent. >> i would like to extend a very warm welcome to our invited panelists. >> reporter: in august he spoke with a panel that will help guide the funds blowing into buffalo. >> the about here is not by happen chance. none of these things are coincidence, consider that. >> reporter: but perhaps the advocacy work closest to his heart is preserving black history.e crime that killed his mother now a parf that we're h buffalo museum of history

resource center. the artifacts from the shooting on jefferson avenue on 5/14 were taken here, were collected. >> these are representative of not only the victims of 5/14 but also of the community. they represent not just those victims but they represent the hopes and dreams of the community that has long been neglected. >> reporter: there is an old haitian saying. beyond every mountain stands another. for the families, friends, and neighbors of those killed in east buffalo a year ago, the summon of their hurt and suffering is in sight and so, too, is the next mountain. hope. >> stand in the shadow of the tops massacre, it's clear that only black people can save black people. and that they must do this in

alliance with groups within the framework of this city. we're not new to gun violence. we're not new to death. we're also not new to white brutality and it doesn't stop us from going to work, doesn't stop us from raising our kids. doesn't stop us from voting and being part of society. this isn't going to stop us now. >> reporter: kat would be out there fighting to the very end for us. i know that. and kat would not stop until her voice was heard. no, kat massie don't stop. >> my mother's not going to be remembered as a victim. i never saw her as a victim, and i'm not going to remember her as a victim and i'm not going to play the role of a victim either. >> reporter: we'll be right back. * cake! listen, don't worry, i'll find your dog. oh, my baby! thyou so much. well... will arnett beat me to it. you can count on me. just like people have been relying on geico

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