This is from a New York Times report about the shooter in the Buffalo, NY supermarket massacre Saturday, which is being investigated by state and federal authorities as a hate crime.
The person quoted here is a former classmate of the accused man, who comes from the southern tier of New York, in Conklin, a town of about 5,000, on the Pennsylvania state line, along the Susquehanna River:
Ms. Williams said the last time she had seen Mr. Gendron was at graduation. She said she was shocked when a friend texted her after the shooting Saturday to tell her that Mr. Gendron had been arrested.
“He was just a quiet, smart kid that I wouldn’t think would be able to do anything like what he did yesterday,” said Mr. Twitchell. “It just blows my mind.”
Kolton Gardner, 18, who attended middle school and high school with Mr. Gendron, described him as “definitely a little bit of an outcast.”
“He just wasn’t that social,” Mr. Gardner said. “I knew he had an interest in guns, but where we grew up that wasn’t uncommon. That’s just kind of the thing in rural New York, people like guns.” (emphasis added)
Earlier in the story, Ms. Williams had said:
Ms. Williams, 19, said Mr. Gendron favored online coursework even as his classmates returned to campus.
“He was always very quiet and never much said anything,” said Ms. Williams, who added that Mr. Gendron was “book smart” but had grown more reclusive over the years since she met him in elementary school.
“We were just so shocked. We can’t even wrap our heads around it still,” she said.
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