{"id":447587,"date":"2022-05-16T02:10:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T23:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/husband-still-unaware-wife-was-shot\/"},"modified":"2022-05-16T02:10:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T23:10:38","slug":"husband-still-unaware-wife-was-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/husband-still-unaware-wife-was-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"#Husband still unaware wife was shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a240954582de\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a240954582de\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/husband-still-unaware-wife-was-shot\/#%E2%80%9CHusband_still_unaware_wife_was_shot%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Husband still unaware wife was shot&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHusband_still_unaware_wife_was_shot%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Husband still unaware wife was shot&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The elderly husband of a Buffalo shooting victim was still unaware of his wife\u2019s fate on Sunday, the couple\u2019s son told The Post, describing his mom as a devoted matriarch who raised four children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are waiting on my sister to arrive and we are going to go there collectively,\u201d said Garnell Whitfield Jr., whose mother Ruth\u00a0Whitfield perished in the mass shooting at a local supermarket. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was his caretaker. He\u2019s been in the nursing home for the last eight years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the ten victims killed during a shooting in Buffalo, Whitfield would go to the nursing home every day to make sure her 88-year-old husband Garnell Whitfield Sr. was cared for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShaving him, cutting his nails, cleaning his ears, cutting his hair, washing him, bathing him\u2026making sure his room was decorated for holidays,\u201d Whitfield said while sitting at his dining room table. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe dedicated her entire life to her family but specifically the last eight years to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After visiting the nursing home Saturday, Whitfield said her mother stopped by the Tops Supermarket around the corner. When he heard about the shooting, he tried calling her a few times but she didn\u2019t answer.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-victims-043.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"The husband of Buffalo shooting victim Ruth Whitfield hasn't been told of his wife's murder yet, according to their son.\" class=\"wp-image-22279342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-victims-043.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-victims-043.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-victims-043.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The husband of Buffalo shooting victim Ruth Whitfield hasn\u2019t been told of his wife\u2019s murder yet, according to their son.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-21.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Whitfield was one of ten people killed in a supermarket in Buffalo on May 14, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-22279347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-21.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-21.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-21.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Whitfield was one of ten people killed in a supermarket in Buffalo on May 14, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Joshua Bessex<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He then stopped by her house and saw her car wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to the scene and\u2026I saw there was a car of the same color as hers in the handic<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed parking which is where she would have parked,\u201d Whitfield said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not good. Not good,\u201d Whitfield said. \u201cMy mom was murdered. How am I supposed to feel? My mom was murdered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitfield described his mother as a wonderful person who loved her family unconditionally. Whitfield called the stay-at-home mother of four his \u201chero.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Ruth-Whitfield-1.jpg?w=683\" alt=\"Whitfield's husband Garnell Whitfield Sr. has lived in a nursing home for the past eight years.\" class=\"wp-image-22279363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Ruth-Whitfield-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1366 1366w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Ruth-Whitfield-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Ruth-Whitfield-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=683 683w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Ruth-Whitfield-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\"\/><figcaption>Whitfield\u2019s husband Garnell Whitfield Sr. has lived in a nursing home for the past eight years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"668\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-victims-046-1.jpg?w=668\" alt=\"Whitfield visited her husband every day to make sure he was care for, her son Garnell Jr. said.\" class=\"wp-image-22279358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-victims-046-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1336 1336w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-victims-046-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1002 1002w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-victims-046-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=668 668w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-victims-046-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=334 334w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-victims-046-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\"\/><figcaption>Whitfield visited her husband every day to make sure he was cared for, her son Garnell Jr. said.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s the kind of person who would have tried to dissuade the gunman from doing what he was doing, that\u2019s who she was,\u201d Whitfield said. \u201cShe wasn\u2019t afraid of power, she wasn\u2019t afraid of death. I can only imagine what her last moments were like. It\u2019s devastating, man. She\u2019s our backbone. She\u2019s our mom. She\u2019s the strongest person I\u2019ll know in my life and probably will ever know again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the shooter, Payton Gendron, 18, was a \u201cproduct of our America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Saturday that Gendron\u2019s actions were racially motivated. Of the 13 people he shot, 11 were black, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-5.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Alleged shooter Payton Gendron was racially motivated, according to police.\" class=\"wp-image-22279367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/buffalo-shooting-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Alleged shooter Payton Gendron was racially motivated, according to police.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Erie County DA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe raised us to be productive God-fearing people and this flies in the face of everything we were taught to believe,\u201d Whitfield said. \u201cThis 18-year-old guy from nowhere shows up and kills my mother and these other people. Where did this hate come from? The truth of the matter is he was birthed by the system. He\u2019s a product of our America, that\u2019s who this guy is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been brutalized, victimized, scarred,\u201d Whitfield said. \u201cOur lives are forever changed.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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