ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester Police Chief Smith and Mayor Evans plan to discuss this weekend’s mass shooting at a media conference. It’s scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m. on Monday.
News10NBC will have a crew there, and stream it live in this story.
What happened?
Officers responded to two separate shootings that they believe were linked early Sunday morning, leaving a total of seven people shot and one person stabbed in downtown Rochester.
RPD spoke to the media about the shooting on Sunday. You can watch that full briefing below:
Police tell us they heard gunshots around 12:30 a.m. Sunday from a parking lot at 275 East Ave. Then, they heard more shots coming from East Broad Street.
This comes after officers got reports of large groups of people coming from East Avenue, Alexander, Union, and East Broad streets.
In the area of 475 East Broad St., officers said they found three shooting victims and one stabbing victim. The victims ranged in age from 12 to 18 years old.
The suspects
During the immediate response, officers stopped two vehicles — one on East Avenue, with the help of a drone, and one on East Broad Street.
Officers recovered two loaded handguns from a Toyota at the East Avenue traffic stop, and two male suspects are being charged with criminal possession of a weapon. A flatbed truck towed away the black car around 5 a.m.
- Larry Dillon, age 29
- Jadell Williams, age 28
Police tell us they found a gun in the car’s trunk and another on Williams’ waistband.
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