Buffalo Attorney John Elmore, who represents some of the families of the victims of the shooting, told 7 News a judge has denied a motion by a gun accessory manufacturer to dismiss a civil lawsuit.
It’s been nine months since a gunman traveled to Buffalo and murdered ten people at the Tops Market on Jefferson Avenue. On Wednesday the gunman faces sentencing in State Supreme Court.
In federal court for a status hearing Friday, defense attorney Sonia Zoglin said " it is still our hope to avoid a trial” and that Gendron was "prepared to enter a similar plea “ to the federal charges if talks over not having him face a death sentence bear fruit.
Families of the victims of the Tops mass shooting on Jefferson Avenue filled three rows of a federal courtroom in Buffalo Thursday to see the accused shooter.