SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – Police are looking for a vehicle as they are investigating a shooting that took place on Wednesday morning.
According to authorities, the shooting happened at the intersection of Broadway and Cedar just before 7 a.m.
The victim, who was placing trash at the curb of a property he owns, was approached by two suspects. The suspects were described as a male and a female, each with a scarf or mask blocking their faces. The suspects demanded the victim’s car but the victim refused to surrender the vehicle and the male suspect withdrew a pistol and fired once, striking the victim in the leg. The two suspects then took the vehicle and were last seen driving south on Broadway towards Rotterdam.
The victim then sought assistance at the Lukoil which is across the street. The victim was treated on the scene and transported to Ellis Hospital. The victim’s wounds are not life threatening. The vehicle is described as a gold 2006 Lexus RX330 SUV. The vehicle has not been recovered at this time. No arrests have been made at this time.
The downtown millionaire political cronies of the city and plex leaders are taken care of, lavished with taxpayer money, in return for kickbacks.
And the average homeowner who pays the taxes of the rich, puts their lives in jeopardy just taking out their trash can.
Time for the city to STOP spending money on downtown and instead spend the money having the sanitation dept employees take cans to the curb and put them in the back of the house, oh and then the city has to fine the owners if they don't shovel a walkway to the back of their house to store the cans.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
The penalties for something like this are not high enough. A grown man and woman who would potentially destroy someone's limb, for a CAR, should be dealt with as seriously as those who attempt to kill.
From what I understand....this crap is happening EVERYWHERE and isn't exclusive to Schenectady. it's happening in communities outside of Schenectady you'd never think of!!! they go unreported. AGAIN.....outside of Schenectady county. affluent areas.
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From what I understand....this crap is happening EVERYWHERE and isn't exclusive to Schenectady. it's happening in communities outside of Schenectady you'd never think of!!! they go unreported. AGAIN.....outside of Schenectady county. affluent areas.
huh!! it is everywhere....my middle daughters 2012 jeep liberty was stolen in troy a few weeks back....she got it back after 4 days // it was involved in a high speed chase thru cohoes up to 787... two 15 year olds aare the ones who took it...both already had warrents on them....
The downtown millionaire political cronies of the city and plex leaders are taken care of, lavished with taxpayer money, in return for kickbacks. And the average homeowner who pays the taxes of the rich, puts their lives in jeopardy just taking out their trash can. Time for the city to STOP spending money on downtown and instead spend the money having the sanitation dept employees take cans to the curb and put them in the back of the house, oh and then the city has to fine the owners if they don't shovel a walkway to the back of their house to store the cans.
They used to do this back in the day but can't afford it now with the renaissance for nonprofits and DEM cronies taking prime Downtown properties off the tax rolls. The horrible Gazetto poo-poos "a handful of murders" like it's okay. They all have to go from McCheese to his County/City running dogs. Great news that Peter G is contemplating a run. ABM-Anybody but McCheeese. Taxes are up as confiscatory DEM taxes crushes the poor and middle class raising rents and destroying small businesses.
SCHENECTADY- A city landlord was doing something extremely ordinary Wednesday morning when something frighteningly extraordinary occurred.
The man was simply emptying the trash outside the building he owns at Broadway and Cedar, around 7:00 A.M. when two strangers approached him on the street, shot him in the leg, stole his wife's Lexus SUV, and left him out in the sub zero cold.
Jay VanVranken owns the Lukoil MiniMart just up the street from the crime scene. At that hour of the day, it was the only business open in the neighborhood, and it's where Greg DeLorenzo limped in, with blood soaked pants, waited for other customers in front of him, then asked VanVranken to call 911.
"I got jittery," VanVranken said. "I dialed the number for him, handed him the phone, got him a stool, and some paper towels to try and put the whole thing together."
When paramedics arrived, they too treated DeLorenzo, 64, then transported him to Ellis Hospital.
Meanwhile, police showed up, began going door-to-door, and the manhunt was underway.
"Both suspects had their faces covered," said Schenectady Police Lieutenent Mark McCracken. "One (a woman) was wearing a scarf, the man was wearing a mask."
Around noontime, someone contacted Schenectady Police to report an abandoned car on Patton Drive in Rotterdam, a quiet residential neighborhood about three miles from the shooting scene.
It was indeed the gold Lexus that was stolen from Broadway earlier in the day. Sources tell News Channel 13's Dan Levy that residents were awake and saw two people walking from the car.
"That somebody would shoot him at a garbage can, It absolutely is bizarre," VanVranken said. "Especially in our neighborhood. We don't expect those types of things." http://wnyt.com/article/stories/s3676130.shtml
SCHENECTADY- A city landlord was doing something extremely ordinary Wednesday morning when something frighteningly extraordinary occurred.
The man was simply emptying the trash outside the building he owns at Broadway and Cedar, around 7:00 A.M. when two strangers approached him on the street, shot him in the leg, stole his wife's Lexus SUV, and left him out in the sub zero cold.
Jay VanVranken owns the Lukoil MiniMart just up the street from the crime scene. At that hour of the day, it was the only business open in the neighborhood, and it's where Greg DeLorenzo limped in, with blood soaked pants, waited for other customers in front of him, then asked VanVranken to call 911.
"I got jittery," VanVranken said. "I dialed the number for him, handed him the phone, got him a stool, and some paper towels to try and put the whole thing together."
When paramedics arrived, they too treated DeLorenzo, 64, then transported him to Ellis Hospital.
Meanwhile, police showed up, began going door-to-door, and the manhunt was underway.
"Both suspects had their faces covered," said Schenectady Police Lieutenent Mark McCracken. "One (a woman) was wearing a scarf, the man was wearing a mask."
Around noontime, someone contacted Schenectady Police to report an abandoned car on Patton Drive in Rotterdam, a quiet residential neighborhood about three miles from the shooting scene.
It was indeed the gold Lexus that was stolen from Broadway earlier in the day. Sources tell News Channel 13's Dan Levy that residents were awake and saw two people walking from the car.
"That somebody would shoot him at a garbage can, It absolutely is bizarre," VanVranken said. "Especially in our neighborhood. We don't expect those types of things." http://wnyt.com/article/stories/s3676130.shtml
Big money changes hands regularly at Broadway and Cedar.
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They used to do this back in the day but can't afford it now with the renaissance for nonprofits and DEM cronies taking prime Downtown properties off the tax rolls. 
