Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made sure the tragic anniversary of the Buffalo mass shooting was honored in Washington.

Sen. Schumer took to the Senate floor as the Buffalo community gathered to remember the 10 lives taken in the tragic attack.

"Three years ago today, ten beautiful innocent lives were cut short in a horrible racist mass shooting at a Tops Supermarket on Buffalo’s East Side," he said. Buffalo is the city of good neighbors, and nowhere is that truer that on the East Side. But in just a few minutes, the community was forever changed. Ten of our grandparents, parents, sons, daughters, friends, neighbors went to the grocery store that day. It was a convening place, a meeting place, the Tops Supermarket was, and they never came home."

Schumer said that he remembers what it felt like to be in Buffalo soon after the shooting. He said that it's a feeling he will not soon forget. 

"I remember being in the community in the days and weeks after," he continued. "I met a young boy only a few years old, his father was out buying him a birthday cake at the grocery store and he never came home. It rattles you to your core. The Buffalo community has done a lot of healing over the last three years, but the pain from the shooting still lingers to this day."

Schumer added that while the comunity has come a long way over these past three years in terms of healing, there is still a long way to go.

"We have a long way to go and a lot of work to do to rid America of the gun violence epidemic," he added. "But the memories of those we lost in Buffalo three years ago today give me endless motivation to keep pushing. May God bless Buffalo, God bless all the families impacted by the tragedy three years ago today."