A Rochester man is going to prison for the murder of a 19-year-old on the Northeast Side. The Monroe County DA’s office says Jordan Evans has been sentenced to 23 years to life in prison for the murder of 19-year-old Keith Brown. Last month a jury convicted Evans of second degree murder for shooting Brown in […]
The City of Rochester had its lowest overall crime rate in 30 years…but the most serious crime, homicide, was up in 2016. There were 42 in 2016, compared with 36 in 2015. That’s an increase of close to 17 percent. There were smaller increases in rape and armed robbery in the city last year, although […]
Rochester Police are investigating an assault call that turned out to be a murder case. Police were called about 6:50 Friday evening to the corner of Sherman and Emerson Streets. They found a man in his 20s with an upper body injury. He was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital and was pronounced dead there. Police […]