A man was fatally shot by police on Milburn Street in Rochester’s Park Avenue neighborhood Monday afternoon, according to Rochester police.
Lt. Greg Bello of the Rochester Police Department said that officers were searching for a man linked to other incidents within Monroe County when the suspect was located outside of a Milburn Street residence when “weapons were introduced and shots were fired.”
Bello said that the man was struck by at least one bullet fired by a police officer and was pronounced dead at the scene.
No officers were injured during the encounter.
Children at nearby School No. 23 on Barrington Street were on temporarily lockout. Several roads in the neighborhood have been blocked off as police investigate.
Police on Monday afternoon were working with the City School District to dismiss students at the elementary school.
Bello said that everyone involved in the incident was “accounted for”and that “there is no ongoing danger to the community.”
Bello did not share details on the prior incidents that led to police seeking out the man.
Multiple police departments are investigating what led to the incident.
Fatal police shootings
Nationwide, 291 individuals have been killed by police so far this year, including two people in New York, according to data from the gunviolencearchive.org. Last year, 1,402 individuals were killed by police nationwide; 22 of those deaths occurred in New York.
Since 2015,the New York Attorney General’s Office investigates all incidents where a police officer may have caused the death of another person. The last such incident involving the Rochester Police Department was in March 2022, when off-duty RPD officer Melvin Williams fatally shot Janet Jordan, a 911 dispatcher, at her home.
There were four killings involving RPD officers in 2021, and in each case the Attorney General’s office concluded that no criminal charges would be brought against the officers involved.