Triple shooting in North Clinton neighborhood leaves two dead

Update: Myjel Rand, 25, one of the two men taken to Strong Memorial Hospital with serious injuries, has died, according to a statement released Wednesday by Capt. Frank Umbrino of the Rochester Police Department. The statement also identified the man killed at the scene as Richard Collinge III, 19, and said the third victim is expected to survive. The deaths bring the number of homicides in Rochester for 2022 to 41.

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Original story: Three men were shot Tuesday night on North Clinton Avenue near Rauber Street. One of the victims was pronounced dead at the scene while the other two were taken to Strong Memorial Hospital with serious injuries.

The names of the victims were not released. The killing marks the 40th homicide in the City of Rochester this year.

Capt. Adam Radens of the Rochester Police Department said the deceased was a 19-year-old male. One of the victims, a 25-year-old male, was taken to the hospital with what were described as "life threatening" injuries. The other, victim, a 29-year-old male, suffered non-life threatening injuries.

Rauber Street is just north of Don Samuel Torres Park, a popular summertime hangout for residents of the community.

Police said that gunshots had rung out at the same location just hours before the deadly shooting.

At approximately 9:50 p.m., an officer driving in the area heard multiple shots being fired. A large group began to disperse as a result of the fired shots. Once the scene was secured, officers discovered that bullets had struck a residence that was occupied by five people. Nobody was injured as a result of the incident.

"It is too early in the investigation to know if the two incidents are connected," Capt. Radens said. "Investigators are working to figure that out."

The overnight shooting occurred less than half a mile north of a quadruple shooting that occurred two weeks ago, leaving one man dead and three others injured.

Around 2:45 a.m. on July 5, police were called to the outdoor basketball court area of the Baden Street Recreation Center, 485 N. Clinton Ave., for a report of a man shot, according to a statement issued by Capt. Frank Umbrino of the Rochester Police Department.

Police said it appears there was an altercation near the basketball court that escalated and that multiple gunshots were fired within a crowd they said was between 200 to 300 people.

Officers say they found a 24-year-old man at the edge of the basketball court who had been shot multiple times in his torso. Police said an ambulance was unable to access the scene, so he was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital by a police patrol car. The victim, identified as Wille Wofford of Rochester, was pronounced dead there a short time later.

As officers were trying to secure the crime scene, three other victims from the same incident showed up at hospitals by private vehicle, police said: a man in his 30s with a gunshot wound to his torso at Rochester General Hospital; a man with at least one gunshot wound to his torso at Strong; and a female in her 20s with at least one gunshot wound to her upper body at Strong. Police said their injuries appeared to be non-life threatening.

This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Myjel Rand, Richard Collinge killed in shooting near Rauber Street