Listen to Grady Lewis's in depth interview on the Gist of Freedom. Grady told ABC News that he bought a drink for the mass shooter, in the Buffalo area shooting, one day before he allegedly opened fire and live streamed the shooting in the parking lot of a supermarket in a predominantly black neighborhood in Conklin, New York. 

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New Zealand took 3 days to ban assault rifles after the mass shooting that inspired the Buffalo shooter.

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Lewis said he and the shooter discussed "theories" like Time Machines, Critical Race Theory (CRT) and  black holes just hours before the alleged shooter opened fire in the parking lot, which left 10 people dead and three wounded.

“I’m wondering, could I have talked to him and said, ‘Hey, we’re all one," Lewis told ABC News. He came back here to the same spot where I bought him something to drink and shot people that looked like me and would’ve shot me if I was standing near.”

Lewis said he asked him if he would be there the next day, to which Lewis replied yes. “Maybe he lives in a small town, don’t know any black people, he kind of liked me and he wanted to come back and talk to me again” instead of coming back to “open fire in the middle of the parking lot,” Lewis added.

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A Saint who cared for people in the community was one of the victims of the Buffalo mass shooting. Pearly Young, 77, ran a food pantry in the Central Park neighborhood for 25 years, feeding people every Saturday.

Young was killed Saturday while shopping for groceries.

She loved singing and dancing.