What the Racist Massacre in Buffalo Stole From One Family

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BUFFALO — He stood next to his mother as she lay in her white coffin, gliding his palm between his 9-year-old son’s back and his grown daughter’s shoulder.

Just days before, Wayne Jones had watched a video filmed from the point of a view of a gunman who reloaded a rifle, pointed it at his mother’s head and pulled the trigger. He knew then that she was with God.

Wayne Jones, 48, was the only child of Celestine Chaney, one of 10 Black people slain in a racist massacre that, for all of 10 days, was the year’s deadliest mass shooting. Her love had been bottomless; now its absence was.

Wayne had six children of his own, and they needed care, too. They required a pillar, and so he had allowed only fleeting glimpses of his heartache during the 10 days between his 65-year-old mother’s killing and the funeral. But as dozens of mourners came to him to offer an embrace as he sat in the first row of Elim Christian Fellowship on Tuesday, it was time for him to feel his pain in full.

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