ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Overall crime in Rochester is down compared to levels before the COVID-19 pandemic, with only 16 murders so far in 2025. However, one of those murders occurred off South Clinton Avenue, where police say a 35-year-old man was shot in the back of the head and killed after an argument at a party.
The victim was Jamell Allen, and his aunt, Yvonne Allen-Clinkscales, works with Baden Street Settlement to help save young men.
“For a person like me, it just gives me more motivation to assure that another family doesn’t go through what I went through,” said Allen-Clinkscales…