‘WE CAN DO IT’
The nation’s only child-coffin maker is shipping them to Trey Ganem, who is determined that each massacre victim’s resting place tells the story of their young life.
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‘FREEDOM. PASSION. PRECISION.’
But the company may still benefit from Tuesday’s horror, just as its sales went up after the 2012 slaughter of 20 kids and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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FEAR CITY
For the second time in as many months, a madman fired a gun on a subway train and then walked away at the next station.
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SHEER INSANITY
Sandy Hook wasn’t enough to get this assault weapon off the market. Buffalo probably won’t be either.
RECON MISSION
Payton Gendron, 18, allegedly searched online for black communities and then performed “reconnaissance” at the Tops Friendly Market.
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SIGHTLINE
A Black driver killed white people at a holiday parade last year—and the right-wing freakout about it seems to have factored into the rampage in Buffalo.
‘HATE CRIME’
An 18-year-old shooter who was wearing tactical gear and a camera is in custody.
Give this guy a job
He’s a wanted man—by town residents who appreciate his handiwork before the theft.
A BREAK FROM THE WAR
Their teacher fled Putin in 1999. Her students under his attack now are escaping as best they can into their work.
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‘SCARY THOUGHT’
Retired deputy chief Randy Winegar says he knows extremism when he sees it.
