Erie County Medical Center

Prior to the arrival of the police officers, the defendant attempted to cause the death of the store clerk by intentionally shooting the victim with an illegal gun during the commission of the crime.

The victim, a 24-year-old male, was taken by ambulance to ECMC where he was treated and released for the injury to his upper leg.

After he fired a shot at the officer, the defendant ran south on Prostek Avenue where he carjacked a vehicle.

The defendant recklessly drove the stolen vehicle northbound on Prospect Avenue for several blocks before crashing into multiple unoccupied parked vehicles near Massachusetts Avenue.

Responding officers performed life-saving measures until the defendant was transported by ambulance to ECMC where he received treatment for an injury to his arm.

Neither of the officers were injured during the incident.

A weapon was recovered from the store's parking lot and placed into evidence.

also entered a guilty plea in a separate indictment during the early morning on Saturday, April 4, 2026.

Officers on scene located an adult male victim suffering from gunshot wounds to the back and neck.

He was transported via AMR to ECMC to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Gun Violence Unit detectives immediately began investigation.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call or text 911 or the confidential tip line at seven one six, eight four seven, two two five five.

He was later taken to a hospital.

His obituary states he died September 15th at the Erie County Medical Center.

Nicastro noted Stephen's family is grieving an unimaginable loss while desperately searching for answers about how and why this tragedy occurred.

Still on page one of the September 30th Post Journal, Homeless man charged with destroying St. Susan Center freezer system by John Whitaker.

Kaleida, the assessment notes, plans to mitigate the effect of reducing capacity to 16 beds below its current utilization by increasing early intervention at the bedside prior to admission to the medical rehabilitation unit and improving at-home rehabilitation services to allow for shorter stays in the unit.

Part of the mitigation also includes transferring patients to similar units at Erie County Medical Center and Kenmore Mercy Hospital.

The planned reduction in medical rehabilitation beds is just one more move within the $200 million strategic plan that Kaleida launched last year to adapt to where healthcare is headed and to bolster the health system's long-term sustainability.

Kaleida accelerated implementation of that plan in response to the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act that has protected projected to reduce Medicaid spending by about $1 trillion nationwide by 2034.

A man was killed and three others were injured in shootings late Sunday and early Monday, according to the Buffalo Police.

A victim was shot near French and Kerr Streets shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday and arrived at Erie County Medical Center in a private vehicle that crashed at the hospital, police said.

Circumstances of the crash were not immediately available.

Buffalo Police initially said the victim died at the hospital, but early Monday afternoon they said the victim was alive and in critical condition.