Last updated: 4:02 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, 2010 SCHENECTADY -- Police have labeled the death of a city man found Monday in his Wendell Avenue home as a homicide.
The department is not releasing the name of the 41-year-old victim until they have notified his family members.
Around 4 p.m. Monday, workers with a Schenectady health services agency went to 1019 Wendell Ave. on the city's North Side after the man failed to show up for an appointment, police said.
When no one answered the door, the workers called police who gained access to the residence and found the body.
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
SCHENECTADY Police identify victim as Wendell Ave. man Wentworth, 41, found dead Monday; results of autopsy not released yet BY STEVEN COOK Gazette Reporter
The man killed in his 1019 Wendell Ave. apartment this week was identified by police Wednesday as 41-year-old Bret Wentworth. Police released Wentworth’s name after withholding it earlier to notify relatives. Wentworth was found dead in his apartment at about 4:20 p.m. Monday. An autopsy Tuesday concluded his death was a homicide. Wentworth was discovered unresponsive inside the living room after an associate alerted police, police have said. Fire Department paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. Police asked anyone with information about the incident to contact the department tips line at 788-6566. ..............>>>>............>>>>.............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01204&AppName=1
Reward offered in unsolved Schenectady homicide Reported by: Walt McClure Email: waltmcclure@fox23news.com Reported by: B. Sanders
Published: 12:21 pm ShareThis Updated: 4:25 pm UPDATE: New details in an unsolved Schenectady murder case as the victim's family issues a plea for help in finding answers eight months after the death of 41-year-old Brett Wentworth. The family and investigators are hoping a reward will jog some memories.
That reward fund is at $2,000, part of a renewed effort to help a large but close-knit family find the person responsible for the loss of a beloved son, brother, uncle and father.
Brett Wentworth, 41, was found dead April 12 inside his apartment on Wendell Avenue in Schenectady.
The police investigation began immediately, but now, the case seems to have gone almost as cold as the winter weather setting in.
“The leads are dwindling,” said Schenectady Public Safety Commissioner Wayne Bennett, “and we have to find a way to generate additional interest and information in this case, which we believe people out there do have.”
But this is what is the result of Susie's robbing the financially struggling people in the city and forcing them to pay the taxes of the millionaires downtown, and all the tax money spent on downtown instead of in the neighborhoods.
The neighborhoods are the backbone of the city, NOT downtown. The city has suffered it's biggest declines (decline in essential services, decline in home values, decline in population, decline in public school system, decline in the safety of living in the city, decline in occupied houses, etc, etc,) since the Savage/Gillen/Stratton partnership
And I DEFY ANYONE to produce ANY proof that city services have increased, that people have moved into the city, that taxes are going down, that neighborhoods have become safer, that education has improved, that population has increased, that home values have incrased, etc. etc.) since the S-G-S partnership.
MAJOR DECLINE OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS - that is what DV claims is a renaissance in the city. I would love to hear him explain how the decline of the neighborhoods is better for the city----but he refuses to answer me---and the cop out excuse that he uses for not answering is that I tell lies about his family---but all I do is say what is public record. So, the real reason he doesn't answer is that he cannot produce one shred of proof that the city has gotten better
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.
MC is totally on point with this. Watching an entire City drown in poverty, crime and bankruptcy while pouring $10 million of the taxpayer dollars into a block of the downtown area is a very poor, and totally irresponsible action on the part of everyone involved. Then, to tax exempt those who received these 'gifts' is just as asinine.
The Mayor, the Council, the Legislature and the Metroplex players should be required to meet with this victims family and explain why Marcella's recieved a $2.1 million dollar building on Broadway, but the City can't afford proper police protection in the neighborhoods.
Schenectady is becoming a City where criminals and gangs know they can get away with just about anything and not get caught.
Let's get our facts straight. Metrograft dumped over $10 million into Proctor's alone. Proctor's refuses to pay ANYTHING for vital police and fire services. Over $100 MILLION dumped into 2 blocks of Downtown. Metrograft has destroyed City Business Districts and hurt Rotterdam.
The Mayor is to blame for continued DEM mismanagement and fiscal incompetence in the City. The DEMS keep the overpaid Commis but refuse to staff police properly. The City Council plays deaf, dumb and blind. They can't read budget lines, they don't know about 2 City Attorney's and know from nuthin about scandals. The only ones that look good are Pat Z, Harry Brandt, Wayne Harper and Vince Riggi.
The only ones that look good are Pat Z, Harry Brandt, Wayne Harper and Vince Riggi.
Many agree! The dems have destroyed the city and the reps are just sitting backing, licking their chops, ready and willing to pick up where the dems left off. Things would operate the same.....just different faces. imho
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
The City REPS are sitting back? That's one way to put it. I bumped into a longtime City REP leader last week and she told me she bought a home in Nisky and can't wait to flee. The City REP chair is on milk cartons. Many old timey REPS have re-emerged in the Alliance Party.
The City DEMS are a laughingstock and the REPS have abandoned the field. Politics abhors a vacuum. The choice looks more and more like re-elect DEM clowns or straight Alliance Party. Pray that they take a turn right and towards fiscal conservatism.
SCHENECTADY Unions help spread word for family Fliers given out about murder, reward offer BY JASON SUBIK Gazette Reporter
While many people in the Capital Region spent the last Saturday before Christmas shopping or having fun with family and friends, Margaret Messer and her family spent the day looking for a murderer. Messer is the sister of Brett Wentworth, who was found dead in his 1019 Wendell Ave. apartment April 12. An autopsy showed he was killed on April 11. He was 41. Police have been investigating the case since, but Public Safety Commissioner Wayne Bennett last week said leads have been drying up. Saturday Messer and about 30 volunteers canvassed Wentworth’s neighborhood with a flier showing his picture and offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Wentworth’s killer. Many of the volunteers were representatives from local labor unions including the Teamsters, the New York State Nursing Association, United Steel Workers, the New York State United Teachers union, the Capital District Labor Federation and the Public Employees Federation. Messer works for PEF. She said she decided to leverage her skills as a labor union organizer to raise public awareness of her brother’s unsolved killing. “I didn’t know what to do. I’m the sister of someone who was murdered and it’s way out of my league,” she said with emotion. “I thought about it for eight months. How can I make a difference? And I said ‘Margaret, you’ve got to do what you do best. Organize.’ I reached out to my labor community and I said I needed them to help me and they said ‘whatever we can do.’ ” Messer said she treated the handling of the reward fliers like any political activity for a union. She broke the neighborhood around her brother’s home into priority streets with 11 zones and had volunteers approach people to hand them fl iers and leave others on porches. She said the key to any activity like Saturday’s is “the ask” — how to ask people for help. The effort was also aided by the United Way and by U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam, who spoke at a gathering Saturday morning. .......................>>>>......................>>>>...............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01101&AppName=1
Saturday Messer and about 30 volunteers canvassed Wentworth’s neighborhood with a flier showing his picture and offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Wentworth’s killer.
Millions of taxpayer dollars to reward wealthy commerical developers - $2000 reward to find a murderer loose in the community. Priorities?
Maybe Galesi, Highbridge Development, Bombers, Bow Tie, or any of the other recipients of Metroplex money and tax exemptions should contribute some reward money to help the community residents they plunder their millions from.
These DEM political pigs will give nothing. They get violent when the City sheeple demand a fair PILOT. And the biggest offenders our new Rotterdam resident Mercury Morris and Union College. The police will stand with tin cup out.
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Let's get our facts straight. Metrograft dumped over $10 million into Proctor's alone. Proctor's refuses to pay ANYTHING for vital police and fire services. Over $100 MILLION dumped into 2 blocks of Downtown. Metrograft has destroyed City Business Districts and hurt Rotterdam. 
