Katherine Massey had a list. She needed to get meat, fruit, paper towels. The 72-year-old Buffalo native usually went to the grocery store every two weeks, and when she did, she stocked up. On Saturday, May 14, she asked her brother, Warren, to drive her.
The three Massey siblings—Kat, Warren, and Barbara—all lived on the same street in Buffalo's Fruit Belt neighborhood, a tight-knit, predominantly Black and working-class community on the city's East Side.