Man charged with selling guns from prison had contact with Buffalo mass shooter

A 24-year-old Texas man was charged on Tuesday with brazenly selling illegal guns and firearm parts while locked up in a Louisiana prison. Prosecutors revealed he communicated with self-professed white supremacist Payton Gendron before the teenager’s 2022 racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket.

The suspect, Hayden Espinosa of Corpus Cristie, Texas, allegedly sold weapons and gun components to an undercover New York City police officer in a case Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragged described on Tuesday as the “confluence of guns and extremism.”

“It is very, very disturbing,” Bragg said at a news conference in which he announced the charges against Espinosa.

Espinosa was indicted on four felony counts of transporting a firearm, machine gun, silencers and a disguised gun, prosecutors said. He was also charged with felony attempted criminal sale of a firearm in the third degree.

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