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RPD: 2025 year-to-date gun numbers, growing ghost-gun problem; coalition green-lights second gun-trace report
Summary
Captain Murrah, speaking for the Rochester Police Department at the Rock Against Gun Violence Coalition’s August meeting, said the city recorded 18 year-to-date homicides, 13 of them gun-related, and 91 shooting incidents involving 100 victims as of that morning.
Captain Murrah, speaking for the Rochester Police Department at the Rock Against Gun Violence Coalition’s August meeting, said the city recorded 18 year-to-date homicides, 13 of them gun-related, and 91 shooting incidents involving 100 victims as of that morning. He gave a breakdown of weapons recovered: 269 handguns, 76 long guns and 41 ghost guns year to date, and for July specifically 38 handguns, four long guns and 10 ghost guns. He also reported 65 criminal possession of weapon arraignments in Monroe County in July, with 13 people held without bail, 42 with cash or bail set (14 of those at $5,000 or less) and nine released with nonmonetary conditions.
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