Ryan Realbuto, 23, of Pittsford, N.Y., was a volunteer for a religious group in Washington, D.C.
Police in Washington, D.C ., are hunting for suspects who killed a religious volunteer from upstate New York who was volunteering in the nation’s capital.
Ryan Realbuto, 23, of Pittsford, New York, was gunned down just after 10 p.m . last Thursday, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
Realbuto was headed home from an event at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church when he apparently was targeted in a violent robbery .
He was found on the street in the Northeast section of the city and died at a hospital.
“We were so balanced before, the five of us. There’s a missing link, there’s a missing piece,” his mother, Janet Realbuto, told WROC-TV .
Realbuto was a volunteer with the service program Cap Corps in Washington, D.C., for the past six months, working with students from a high school.
The group is a Franciscan non-profit organization.
He was assigned to Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School’s ninth-grade students at its Leadership Academy to help prepare them to enter the workforce.