Players and coaches from the NFL's Buffalo Bills, the NHL's Buffalo Sabres and the Buffalo Bandits lacrosse team have united to help out the community hit by Saturday's shooting, which killed and wounded three.

The sports teams helped international food relief agency World Central Kitchen and local celebrity chef Darian Bryan by serving pasta lunches to 750 people. The neighborhood's Tops supermarket, which was the site of the shooting, has remained closed since Saturday.

There were three different lines, one for tomato plants, a second for fresh fruit, and a third for hot plates of pasta and chicken. The players also paid their respects by placing flowers at the restaurant.

Bills players wore black t-shirts that read: “Choose Love.”

"It's the least we can do. This community has our backs year-round. If we can just bring a few moments of happiness to people's lives, it's worth it,” Bills tight end Dawson Knox told the Democrat and Chronicle.

“It's hard to wrap your mind around how there's such evil in the world," Knox added.

"It was just a heavy, sickening feeling to think someone could do something like that. Driving up here today was the least I could do,” Sabres goaltender Malcolm Subban told local media.

Bills quarterback Josh Allen called the shooting "disgusting" and "despicable." Wide receiver Stefon Diggs flew back to Buffalo to help the community, according to Mayor Byron Brown.

The Buffalo Bills Foundation also donated $200,000 to support the response efforts, and the NFL Foundation matched them for a total of $400,000, the Bills said in a tweet on Wednesday.

"I put myself in those people's shoes. That could've been anyone,” said Bills first-round draft pick Kaiir Elam.

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