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Five 17-year-old offenders were transferred to New York s Monroe County Jail Monday after they were involved in a brawl at a nearby children s detention center Saturday that left four deputies injured, according to reports.
A fight broke out around 11:43 a.m. between two teens being held at the Monroe County Children s Detention Center in Rush, about 15 miles southwest of Rochester, authorities said. One of the teens was being detained on a murder charge, while the other was being held on a weapon possession charge.
After a youth detention worker unsuccessfully attempted to break up the fight, jail deputies stepped in to help the worker.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) Members of the Stop the Violence campaign are calling on the community to step up and help end the recent surge of violence in Rochester.
The group says it wants to see a bigger focus on helping the city s youth. Organizers
pointed to the incident at the Monroe County Children s Detention Center over the weekend as proof of the issues that the age group is facing in the county. It s just not the police, it s not just the parents the family, it s just not the school. it s just not the church, organizer Clay Harris said. But it s all of us as a community because a lot of these young people don t have a role model or even a parent.
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Four Monroe County sheriff s deputies were injured during a fight with youthful offenders Saturday morning at the county children s detention center in Rush.
Sheriff Todd Baxter said the deputies were not gravely injured during the melee. Two teens being held at the facility were also hurt.
According to a county spokesman, a fight broke out between two teens being held at the facility at 11:43 a.m. One is being detained on a murder charge, while the other is being held on a weapon possession charge. The county didn t identify any of the deputies or youthful offenders involved in the alleged fights.
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GATES, N.Y. (WHEC) Friday afternoon, 16-year-old Anthony Jacobs turned himself in to the Gates Police Department.
He was accompanied by his mother just 24 hours after police sent out a warrant for his arrest for an attempted carjacking that killed 71-year-old Richard Sciascia.
News10NBC spoke to Sciascia s step-daughter, Emily Austin, about how she felt about the arrest. They took a life, but they actually took their own because now they ll spend it behind bars,” Austin said.
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Austin says a second arrest has given her family the mindset to really start healing. I pray that wherever they end up, that they get rehabilitation and that they realize what they ve done that s the key, to comprehend what they ve done,” Austin said.