Rochester police have identified the man shot to death on Roycroft Drive late Tuesday night as 26-year-old Kenneth Johnson. He was Rochester’s 48th homicide of the year and the third man to be fatally shot in three nights. Police say they were called to Roycroft Drive about 10:30 Tuesday night and found Johnson, who died […]
A Rochester man has been found guilty by a Monroe County jury in the ax murder that killed a city woman last year. The jury found 22-year-old Joseph Rivera Jr guilty of second degree murder in the brutal slaying of Heather Majors. Police said Majors was hit well over 70 times with a hatchet on […]
Residents of the House of Mercy homeless shelter in Rochester have been relocated twice since a fatal stabbing attack at the shelter on Sunday night. As the shelter remains closed, residents were first taken to Martin Luther King Park in downtown Rochester, where they were put up in the park lodge. But that lasted only […]