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Community responds to mass killing with grief and strength

Under sunny blue skies, as a cool breeze blew off Lake Erie last Sunday, the Buffalo East Side district of Kingsley was transformed by a determined resilience from a day earlier, when 10 people were shot dead by an 18-year-old white supremacist, but still full of anger as people continued to mourn.

There was an outpouring of grief, coupled with fear, from residents gathered on one side of Tops

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