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Seattle Man Phoned Buffalo NY Stores Threatening To Shoot Black People

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Seattle Man Phoned Buffalo NY Stores Threatening To Shoot Black People

Joey George, a 37-year-old Seattle man, phoned a Buffalo grocery store twice in July threatening to shoot Black people in the store. He included talk about a “race war.” Western District of Washington prosecutors said that he allegedly used racial slurs and threats to shoot customers at the businesses because of his racial hatred. 

George, a suburban Seattle man, was arrested and accused of threatening to shoot Black customers at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court. 

Prosecutors said George is also being charged in connection with a May call to a restaurant in San Bruno, California. On that call he allegedly threatened to shoot Black and Hispanic patrons. He was also charged with making other threatening calls to businesses in Maryland, Connecticut and Washington over the last year. Joey George is charged with making interstate threats. 

It was a gruesome day when a man killed 10 Black people in a mass shooting at a different Buffalo grocery store. On May 14, a shooter took the lives of 10 Black people and hurt several others at Tops Friendly Supermarket in Buffalo. A 19-year-old White man has pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges in connection with the attack. 

Investigators say the suspected Tops shooter drove for more than three hours from his home in Conklin, New York, to a busy grocery store chosen for its location in a predominantly Black neighborhood, with the intent of killing as many Black people as possible. He was motivated, they said, by white supremacist beliefs which he described in online diary entries.

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