By KEN THURMAN, Staff writer Last updated: 1:11 a.m., Tuesday, December 8, 2009 SCHENECTADY -- A man was shot in the parking lot of a convenience store early this morning and police were scrambling to find the gunman. Few details were immediately available, but the shooting occurred just before 1 a.m. in the parking lot of the Stewart's store on Hamburg Street next to the Rollerrama skating rink. What prompted the shooting and the condition of the victim were not known. But police scanner reports indicate the victim was being rushed to Ellis Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
WOW! A shooting on Hamburg Street?? Hasn't that Stewarts been robbed numerous times before? How 'bout more external illumination and security cameras?
I think this may become a more serious problem if not nipped in the bud now. There is an elementary school almost across the street and a senior center just a couple of blocks down the road.
Yup....we should all be attending the city council meetings and the county leg meetings to let them know that the rotterdamians are NOT going to continue to put up with the spillage of welfare, section 8 and drug dealers due to their poor planning, inept police dept and their impotent legal system.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
how about our police chief and asst chief hopping in a car and joining the patrol force for their 100K a year your would think for 5+million a year they could keep crime down next they will want a raise citing its dangerous out there
Talking to each other is better than talking about each other
how about our police chief and asst chief hopping in a car and joining the patrol force for their 100K a year your would think for 5+million a year they could keep crime down next they will want a raise citing its dangerous out there
Talking to each other is better than talking about each other
First published in print: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 ROTTERDAM -- A town man shot his niece's boyfriend during a domestic dispute at a home on Outer Driver early Tuesday morning, police said. Brian L. Simmons, 51, of 1021 Outer Drive, was arguing with his niece when her boyfriend, Joel M. Winkler, attempted to intervene, Rotterdam police said. Simmons then shot Winkler, 24, in the torso with a shotgun at 12:53 a.m. Tuesday, police said.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
ROTTERDAM Trial in shooting hangs on motive BY STEVEN COOK Gazette Reporter
A 62-year-old Rotterdam man started a fight with the boyfriend of his live-in niece in December 2009 as a pretext to shoot the boyfriend, a prosecutor told a Schenectady County Court Jury Tuesday. The defendant’s attorney didn’t dispute that his client, Brian Simmons, shot the boyfriend. But the shooting was justified, attorney Steve Kouray told the jury. Simmons was defending his wife and home from a man who had been told previously that he wasn’t welcome in the home. Attorneys for both sides gave their opening statements Tuesday afternoon in Simmons’ first-degree assault trial. If convicted on the assault count, Simmons faces up to 25 years in state prison. The case is expected to turn on Simmons’ intent at the time of the shooting and why his victim was in the home at the time. Prosecutor Amy Monahan told the jury Simmons’ intent was clear. “The defendant instigated an argument with someone he didn’t like so he had an excuse to shoot him,” Monahan told the jury. Kouray argued Simmons had every right to shoot. “Brian Simmons rightfully and legally protected probably the two most important things in his life,” Kouray told the jury, “the physical safety of his wife and the sanctity and peace of his home.” ..........................>>>>......................>>>>............................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00902&AppName=1
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A shooting on Hamburg Street?? Hasn't that Stewarts been robbed numerous times before? How 'bout more external illumination and security cameras? 
