Daily US Times: Police said at least two people have died and 14 others were wounded during an overnight shooting at a back yard party in New York’s Rochester city.
Local police chief Mark Simmons told reporters on Saturday that the deaths included a female and a male, both between the ages of 18 and 22.
Police said the 14 wounded people were taken to two different hospitals, with none of them believed to have life-threatening injuries.
“This is truly a tragedy of epic proportions,” Simmons said near the crime scene.
Simmons said officers responded to calls of shots fired and found “approximately 100 people” running from the scene. He said, before the call, police were not aware of the party.
He said: “This is yet another tragedy where individuals are having these illegal, unsanctioned house parties taking place in these properties, which, number one, is not safe because of COVID, because of the conditions. And then you add in alcohol and violence and it just becomes a recipe for disaster.”
No suspects were in custody, the police officer said, adding that it was too early to tell whether there were multiple shooters.
The shooting incident happened as the city’s police department faces public anger over the suffocation death of Daniel Prude.
A video taken in March and made public on September 4 by Prude’s family shows Prude handcuffed and naked with a spit hood over his head as a police officer pushes his face against the street while another presses a knee to his back.
The officers held him down for about two minutes until he stopped breathing and he was taken off life support a week later.
Mayor Lovely Warren fired police chief La’Ron Singletary on Monday, who she said initially misled her about the circumstances of Prude’s death.
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