By — Associated Press Associated Press Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/funeral-held-for-youngest-victim-in-buffalo-mass-shooting Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Funeral held for youngest victim in Buffalo mass shooting Nation May 21, 2022 11:18 AM EDT SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A 32-year-old woman who was the youngest of the 10 Black people killed at a Buffalo supermarket was remembered as big-hearted and quick with a laugh before her funeral Saturday. Roberta Drury grew up in the Syracuse area and moved to Buffalo a decade ago to help tend to her brother in his fight against leukemia. She was shot to death last Saturday on a trip to buy groceries at the Tops Friendly Market targeted by the gunman. Final goodbyes for “Robbie” were set to take place Saturday morning at the stately brick Assumption Church in Syracuse, not far from where she grew up in Cicero. Roberta Drury, who was among those who lost their lives in the TOPS supermarket shooting in Buffalo, New York, U.S. on May 14, 2022, poses in an undated family photograph. Amanda Drury/Handout via Reuters. Her family wrote in her obituary that she “couldn’t walk a few steps without meeting a new friend.” Drury is the second shooting victim to be eulogized. A private service was held Friday for Heyward Patterson, the beloved deacon at a church near the supermarket. More funerals were scheduled throughout the coming week. Tops was encouraging people to join its stores in a moment of silence to honor the shooting victims Saturday at 2:30 p.m., the approximate time of the attack a week earlier. And a candlelight vigil is planned at the Buffalo supermarket in the evening. By — Associated Press Associated Press
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A 32-year-old woman who was the youngest of the 10 Black people killed at a Buffalo supermarket was remembered as big-hearted and quick with a laugh before her funeral Saturday. Roberta Drury grew up in the Syracuse area and moved to Buffalo a decade ago to help tend to her brother in his fight against leukemia. She was shot to death last Saturday on a trip to buy groceries at the Tops Friendly Market targeted by the gunman. Final goodbyes for “Robbie” were set to take place Saturday morning at the stately brick Assumption Church in Syracuse, not far from where she grew up in Cicero. Roberta Drury, who was among those who lost their lives in the TOPS supermarket shooting in Buffalo, New York, U.S. on May 14, 2022, poses in an undated family photograph. Amanda Drury/Handout via Reuters. Her family wrote in her obituary that she “couldn’t walk a few steps without meeting a new friend.” Drury is the second shooting victim to be eulogized. A private service was held Friday for Heyward Patterson, the beloved deacon at a church near the supermarket. More funerals were scheduled throughout the coming week. Tops was encouraging people to join its stores in a moment of silence to honor the shooting victims Saturday at 2:30 p.m., the approximate time of the attack a week earlier. And a candlelight vigil is planned at the Buffalo supermarket in the evening.