Accused murderer Frank Garcia pleaded not guilty in Sweden Town court to two counts of First Degree Murder and one count of attempted murder at his arraignment last night. He is charged with the murders of Mary Sillman and Randall Norman and the attempted murder of Audra Dillon.

A Lakeside Health spokesman calls Randy Norman “a hero”.

Mary Sillman started with Lakeside as a CNA in their long term nursing facility in October. Garcia was let go by Lakeside last week. He was hired in late October or early November. His was a per diem position, a nursing supervisor on off-shifts at the long term nursing facility. He was an RN. His RN registration

The Lakeside spokesman cannot comment on Garcia’s employment history or reason for termination.

A memorial service is being planned in Brockport.

Christopher Glatz was an administrator at the Quail Summit assisted nursing facility in Canandaigua. Kimberly Glatz worked at F.F. Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua and was a student at Nazareth College and Finger Lakes Community College according to her MySpace page.

Shots rang out during an argument in the parking lot of Lakeside Memorial Hospital in Brockport, New York about 5 a.m.. A man and a women were arguing when a couple passing by attempted to intervene.

A suspect fired multiple shots killing two and wounding one. He then fled the scene. Killed at the scene were Randall Norman, 41, from Holley and Mary Sillman, 23, from Albion. Sillman is reported by Monroe Country Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn to have been the women the shooting suspect was fighting with. Norman was one of the two people who intervened.

The wounded individual, a woman, is being treated at Strong Memorial Hospital this evening. Sheriff O’Flynn does not believe her injuries to be life threatening. Her name was not released by the Sheriff.

Around 1:30 p.m., Ontario County Sheriffs deputies responded to a shooting on Middle Cheshire Road in Canandaigua. A man and a woman, reported to be Christopher and Kimberly Glatz were found dead, shot execution style. A teenaged boy and girl in the home were unharmed.

Neighbors on Middle Cheshire Road have told Ontario deputies that the suspect was going door to door in the vicinity looking for the Glatz home.

Kimberly Glatz’s MySpace page

Monroe County investigators were able to contact the suspect by cell phone and arranged for him to surrender. He was taken into custody peacefully at a Tim Horton’s on Lake Avenue. Sheriff O’Flynn stated that he was found in possession of a 40 caliber Glock pistol, which is believed to the the murder weapon.

The suspect is Frank Garcia of Hilton.

Assistant District Attorney Doug Randall states that the suspect has been arraigned on two counts of First Degree Murder and will be held without bond. Ontario County DA Michael Tantillo told reporters that he would present the Canandaigua murders to a grand jury in about two weeks.

The suspect is reported to have been recently fired by Lakeside Hospital. All questions concerning his employment were referred to the hospital. Neither sheriff would speculate on the suspect’s motives or relationships with any of the shooting victims.

From Stimulus Watch, this list of projects for the Rochester New York area. My comments in bold.

• Brighton: $3.6 million for Senator Keating Blvd. This street is less than a mile long and lined by medical office buildings. I was there last week and it is in great shape.
• Rochester: Broad Street tunnel rehab: $10 million. An old subway runs under Broad Street. Due to lack of attention over the decades, it is now creating problems overhead. Full of winos most of the time.
• Rochester: Mt. Hope Ave. reconstruction $5 million. Busy street near University of Rochester Medical Center. Narrow, poorly marked, lots of driveways for businesses and many pedestrians.
• Rochester: Art Walk 2. $3.3 million. To extend an “urban art trail” and improve a key intersection. Intersection sucks. WTF is an “urban art trail” and how is it different than a sidewalk?
• Rochester: Milling and resurfacing. $3 million. Doubles the City’s existing program for street repairs.
• Rochester: Jefferson Ave revitalization. $2.5 million. Moving the hookers, gangbangers and drug deals to another part of the city?
• Rochester: Genesee River Crossroads Park Plaza Deck $2.2 million. Fixing the place up for the four people who use it yearly.
• Rochester: East Henrietta Road Reconstruction $2 million. Same dealio as the Mt. Hope work. Road is wider and not as full of pedestrians.
• Rochester: 2009 Hazardous Sidewalk Replacement Program $2 million. Doubles the City’s program. Guns don’t kill people, sidewalks kill people.
• Rochester: Genesee Riverway Trail Rehabilitation $2 million. It’s a nice walk in the summer, but in Rochester it’s unbearable a good part of the year.
• Rochester: Brooks Avenue Reconstruction $1.775 million. Another street project. Heavy truck traffic.
• Rochester: South Clinton/Mount Hope $1.25 million. Improve intersection for hookers, gangbangers and drug dealers.
• Rochester: Cultural District Sidewalk Replacement. $1.1 million. They failed to raise enough money for a performing arts center, but they can fix up the sidewalks for the theater goers at the Eastman, etc.
• Rochester: La Avenida Streetscape Improvements. $1.1 million. Ensuring that the rioters at the annual Puerto Rican festival have a nice area to enjoy their random acts of violence.
• Rochester: 2009 Bridge Maintenance Program. $1.1 million. Doubles the City’s program.
• Rochester: Stutson Street Reconstruction. $400,000. How this did not get down when they put the new bridge in several years ago is beyond me. Part of the “Port” revitalization. Will be just as empty of tourists after it’s completed.
• Rochester: Orchard-Whitney Brownfield Site. $200,000. Obviously unable to make original polluters pay.
• Rochester: Durand Eastman Beach Water Quality Improvements. $1.6 million. To filter the water being discharged from the water treatment facility into Lake Ontario. Apparently water treatment doesn’t mean what I thought it meant.
• Rochester: Charlotte (West) /Summerville (East) Pier Safety Enhancement. $1 million. To keep drunken boaters from running into the damn piers and killing people.
• Rochester: 425-435 Mount Hope Site Environmental Remediation Project Erie Harbor on the Genesee River. $1 million. I don’t have a clue. Sounds like it might be intended to support a private development on the river.
• Rochester: Rundel Library HVAC Upgrades. $2.2 million. They have a new library building. This is for the old building. I have no idea why the building is in use.
• Rochester: Revitalizing Vacant Properties with Clean Energy Systems Grant. $1.5 million. Will this be before or after the drug addicts and arsonists set the places on fire?
• Rochester: Edgerton Recreation Center Upgrades. $1.315 million. It might keep some at-risk kids out of trouble.
• Rochester: Mercury Vapor Streetlight Replacement Project. $1.1 million. More light with less electricity.
• Rochester: Blue Cross Arena Energy Efficiency Upgrades. $831,000. Ice making made more efficient to support pro hockey team at no cost to the team.
• Rochester: Chestnut Street Firehouse HVAC Upgrades. $575,000. 70 year old firehouse. Worth all the trouble?
• Rochester: City Facilities Energy Efficiency Program. $500,000. You’re gonna love this. Change exit signs to more efficient lighting. Tint windows. Improve insulation in 18 buildings. Change exit sign lights????
• Rochester: Rochester Riverside Convention Center Energy Upgrades. $400,000. The Convention Center, where there is no place to park but it gets $$$.

Here are some pics from today’s snow storm.

snowing around 1130 am

Another money making scheme

Snow depth at 1420

It was a fairly normal call. Mom was worried about her son’s mental health. May 1, 2008, about 8:30 pm.

Rochester City police officer Robert Osipovitch responded to the call. He found the suspect, and asked him to remove his hands from his pockets.

Also on scene was a Rural Metro ambulance crew, two people including EMT Brandon McCaughey. They would be transporting the suspect if he were arrested for mental health reasons.

The suspect did not comply with the police officer. The officer pulled out pepper spray and asked again. The suspect rushed at Osipovitch and pulled a knife.

The officer used the spray and the two grappled. EMT McCaughey saw the suspect repeatedly stabbing Officer Osipovitch and moved to help.

R News:

I saw the subject pull out the knife in his right hand and started repeatedly slashing the officer on his left side torso and I immediately jumped in, grabbed the subject’s hand with the knife, removed the knife out of his hand, took him down onto the ground,” said McCaughey.

McCaughey says he then grabbed the handcuffs off Officer Osipovitch’s belt and used them on Sterling.

“These guys, they’re out for us, protecting us when we’re out there and I feel I had to do the same thing,” said McCaughey.

Officer Osipovitch was treated and released for a stab wound to the tricep. Another officer sustained a hand injury. McCaughey received some of the pepper spray but otherwise was not injured.

See also the Democrat & Chronicle story