A young woman hosted a gathering of her friends. Someone invited a friend and someone invited another, and so on, and so on. Soon, more than 100 people were at the house and the party grew out of control.
By shortly after midnight, two young adults, Jaquayla Young and Jarvis Alexander, were killed and 14 were wounded.
The mass shooting is the most devastating outcome of the house parties that have taken place over the past several months. They have posed a challenge to the community because of the potential for violence and the spread of COVID-19.
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Among them:
• On March 14, people at a house party on High Street on the northeast side of the city started fighting inside. When it moved outside, several partygoers began shooting at one another. A shot was fired in the direction of police officers who were responding to ShotSpotter activations.
• On June 1, police broke up a disruptive house party on Fieldwood Drive in the northeast side of the city. Police said more than 200 people were at the party that spilled into the street.
• On June 4, police broke up a house party on Jefferson Avenue that spilled into the streets. Police said about 250 to 300 people were in the area in southwest Rochester.
In the six weeks from June 1 to July 15, 70 people were shot in the city, including eight homicides that involved firearms. There were nine separate shooting incidents with multiple gunshot victims. During that stretch in 2019 and 2018, there were 40 and 36 shootings, respectively.
On July 15, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren issued an emergency order banning gatherings of five or more people in public places between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. It also banned indoor gatherings of 10 or more people during those hours unless the location is licensed under the Alcohol Beverage Control law. Warren said she believed shootings were happening at late-night parties on city streets. Many of these gatherings did not start out as house parties.
Warren's order was met with protests. The first was a gathering of about 100 people at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, hosted by Free the People Roc and the Coalition for Black Lives. Thirty of those attendees — adults who challenged the mayor's order and refused to leave the park when directed to do so by Rochester police — were arrested.
In a statement, the groups said, "the city has shown a complete disregard for Black lives as they continue to criminalize Black and brown for simply existing in their neighborhoods. The community sees that this was never about public health or responding to gun violence, but rather a way to further criminalize Black and brown people instead of addressing the root causes of crime. The people will continue to rise up and challenge the status quo."
A smaller protest occurred the following night, but there were no arrests.
After the mass shooting on Saturday morning, Mayor Lovely Warren asked people to observe the 11 p.m. curfew and to call 911 for house parties in neighborhoods.
“Were all in this together," she said. "We need your help.”
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