Buffalo Bills, NFL foundations donating $400,000 to relief efforts after Tops supermarket shooting

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The Buffalo Bills Foundation and NFL Foundation are teaming up to support the Buffalo community following Saturday's supermarket shooting.

On Wednesday, the Bills announced the foundations are donating $400,000 to local response efforts after a gunman opened fire at Tops Friendly Markets, killing 10 people and injuring at least three others. 

The team said $200,000 will be donated to the Buffalo Together Community Response Fund, which will address the immediate community needs and "systemic issues that have marginalized communities of color."

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The field is prepared at Highmark Stadium before an NFL football game between the Buffalo Bills and the Carolina Panthers, Dec. 19, 2021, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)

"On behalf of the Buffalo Together Community Response Fund, we are most grateful for the generous contributions from the Buffalo Bills Foundation and the National Football League Foundation that will allow us to create real change and emerge from the darkness of this heinous act," Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, president, and CEO of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, wrote in a statement. 

"This Fund is a partnership to build upon the collective desire to take action and to work together as a community to address immediate needs, long-term rebuilding, and systemic issues that continue to marginalize communities of color," the statement continued. 

A person walks past the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., on Sunday. A local man referenced the mass shooting that killed 10 people during alleged threatening calls to two local business,