When ex-prosecutor Edward Cosgrove heard of the racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket, he thought of another racist killer who terrorized the city.
at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo that left 10 people dead, he said his mind raced back more than four decades to when he led the hunt for another gun-wielding racist killer who terrorized the city for months.by a white man authorities said sought to kill Black people, and the serial hate killings committed in 1980 by Joseph Christopher, a white Buffalo resident dubbed the ".22-Caliber Killer.
Cosgrove was the Erie County District Attorney when Christopher began his killing rampage in a parking lot of a Tops store on Genesee Street, several miles from the east side Tops market where Gendron committed mass murder, live streaming part of the attack online. Four killings investigators attributed to Christopher occurred in New York City. In November 1980, Christopher enlisted in the U.S. Army and was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia. While on a Christmas furlough in New York City, he allegedly stabbed to death three Black men and one Hispanic man and attacked two other Black men in the span of two days.
Months later, Gorney said she identified Christopher in a police lineup and testified against him at his two trials.
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