‘I was fearful for everybody up there’ | Metro Atlanta reacts to mass shooting in Buffalo

SOUTH FULTON, Ga. — The morning after a racially-motivated capturing at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, customers at a Publix in South Fulton stated they had been involved about the potential for one thing comparable. 

“This isn’t regular. It’s. Scary, truly. As a result of it might occur proper right here, the place I am standing proper now,” Calvin Hobbs stated.

Hobbs was one in all dozens of customers who made their option to the grocery retailer Sunday morning. The thought of a capturing occurring whereas he was operating errands is one thing he hadn’t thought of previous to Saturday’s capturing in Buffalo. 

He additionally stated he is grow to be barely numb to the information of one other mass capturing. 

“You exit and also you form of do not give it some thought. Simply hope it would not occur to you,” Hobb stated. 

Warning was additionally on the thoughts of Matthew Benford who was buying together with his younger daughter Sunday morning. 

“One thing so simple as going to the grocery retailer can grow to be harmful in a short time. So it simply makes you so frightened of on a regular basis actions and also you simply need to maintain your self secure and your loved ones secure,” he stated. 

Like Hobbs and different customers, Benford stated he would not prefer to stay in concern, however he’s additionally aware of the potential for an analogous incident going down. 

“You attempt to maintain regular as a lot as you may whereas holding your self secure,” he stated.

Diane George was additionally at Publix Sunday morning. She stated she would go away her security as much as a better energy. 

“I do not know the way I might change it as a result of it is one thing that we have to do. Simply bought to hope. Pray. And ask God to maintain you. He has saved me in so some ways,” she stated.