BUFFALO, N.Y. — Garnell Whitfield Jr., whose 86-year-old mother died in the Tops supermarket massacre last May, said he's not interested in hearing what the gunman has to say when he plans to apologize to victims' families on Wednesday.
"Nothing he's going to say to me is going to bring my mother back. It's not going to take away the pain of losing her," Whitfield, the retired Buffalo fire commissioner, told ABC News."I'm assuming that whatever he's doing, he's doing it for himself."
Gendron, a self-professed white supremacist who livestreamed part of the attack, plans to make a statement at Wednesday's hearing, in which he is expected to apologize to the loved ones of those he gunned down, sources told The Buffalo News. Jones and Whitfield are among the family members of those killed who have submitted victim impact statements to the court.
Whitfield's father, 88-year-old Garnell W. Whitfield Sr., suffers from dementia and lives in a nursing home. "Whatever he does in court is a procedural thing. His fate is sealed, there's no discretion in the sentencing. It's life without parole, period," Whitfield said.
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