Attorneys representing Payton Gendron, the Tops supermarket mass shooter, have filed motions seeking the dismissal of the federal case against him.
In the documents submitted on Monday, the defense argued that additional federal prosecution is unnecessary for justice. Gendron has already received a life sentence without parole, along with an additional 90 years, for killing 10 Black individuals and injuring three others at the Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue on May 14, 2022.
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