File photo: Cariol Horne, 54, places a rose on the fence outside the Tops Friendly Market on Thursday, July 14, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y.A Seattle-area man allegedly called a Buffalo Tops supermarket location twice this week, saying “he would make the news if he shot and killed all of the Black people in the store” including women, children and babies, and later referenced a “race war,” according to federal prosecutors.
According to a complaint filed in federal court in Washington on Thursday, George called a Buffalo Tops supermarket on Tuesday and asked a worker who answered the phone how many Black people were in the store. He told the worker there was a chance he was already in the store or nearby and that if he didn’t see anyone in the store, he’d travel to the Tops supermarket where the deadly shooting took place in May, the complaint states.
George, of Lynnwood, Washington, is also charged in the complaint with calling a restaurant in San Bruno on May 12 and threatened to shoot “any Black or Hispanic patrons if the restaurant did not close within twenty minutes.” George allegedly told a San Bruno police officer who called his cell phone that he wanted to “attack Black people and strike fear into the Bay Area’s Black community,” the complaint states.