Posted on Jul 23, 2022.) The shooting came just hours after the upstate city was put under a state of emergency after another year of rampant gun violence. The shooting happened Thursday evening on Bauman Street in Rochester. (Kelvin Vickers, a 21-year-old man from Massachusetts, was arraigned Saturday morning in Rochester City Court in connection to the shooting death of Rochester Police Officer Anthony Mazurkiewicz. As an adult, he’s been convicted of possession of an unlicensed firearm, cops said.
When he was 12-years-old, Vickers was charged for assault and battery on an officer, police told WHAM. He is from the Boston area and has an “extensive criminal background,” Umbrino said. Vickers was charged with second-degree murder, attempted murder, assault and weapons counts. A 15-year-old girl in a nearby home was also struck and wounded. Frank Umbrino (Courtesy of YouTube) He jumped out of the vehicle and returned fire, but the suspect was not hit, cops said.
Seng, an eight-year veteran with the department, was wounded in the leg and later discharged from the hospital. Seventeen shots were fired into the police vehicle from behind, authorities said. Posted on Jul 22, 2022.) A preliminary test has determined that the gun was the weapon used in the fatal shooting. (Rochester police chief says veteran officer Anthony Mazurkiewicz was shot in a ‘cowardly ambush’ while responding to a call. Frank Umbrino said at a press conference on Friday.
The suspect was found hiding in a crawl space of a vacant house near the scene with a loaded 9mm handgun, Rochester Police Capt. Kelvin Vickers, 21, was busted about an hour after Anthony Mazurkiewicz, a 29-year member of the force, was killed while sitting in a parked cruiser with his partner, Sino Seng at about 9:15 p.m. (Courtesy of the Rochester Police Department) J– In Breaking News – NEW YORK POST A man has been arrested and charged with murder in the ambush-style shooting death of a veteran Rochester police officer on Thursday night, police said. Officer Mazurkiewicz served with the Rochester Police Department for 29 years, and is survived by his wife and children.