Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – One local agency dedicated to helping victims of domestic violence in Western New York is raising the red flag over a rise in incidents, especially among repeat offenders. Two such instances have recently resulted in homicides in Erie County.
The first incident occurred two weeks ago when 49-year-old Rickey Crouch, who had a past history of violence, was accused of murdering 44-year-old Amanda Thompson at her home on South Ogden Street in Buffalo. Crouch not only had served a prior prison sentence for murder, but he also was involved in a domestic relationship with Thompson, and had a history of multiple arrests involving Thompson.
Then just this past Tuesday, 37-year-old Daniel Negron of Buffalo was accused of murdering a 27-year-old woman, who was found at a motel on Niagara Falls Boulevard in Amherst. As for Negron, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison back in 2009 after pleading guilty to trying to kill a former girlfriend with a machete, hammer and scissors in October 2008…