On August 20, 2026, at approximately 6:38 p.m., State Police responded to 2352 U.S. Route 11 in the town of Mexico for a report of a domestic.<\/p>\n
The preliminary investigation determined that the victim responded to the residence to speak with a family member, Daniel S. Smith, age 33, of Parish, NY.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During the encounter, Smith requested that the victim leave the property. The victim and Smith then became involved in a physical altercation.<\/p>\n
During the dispute, Jerry B. White, age 55, of Parish, NY, who resides at a neighboring property, discharged a single round from a 20-gauge shotgun into the air in an apparent attempt to stop the altercation.<\/p>\n
The investigation further determined that Smith then retrieved a handgun from his vehicle and discharged one round, striking the victim in the upper leg. A witness to the incident contacted 911.<\/p>\n
The victim was transported by ambulance to Upstate University Hospital, where he remains in stable condition with a non-life-threatening injury.<\/p>\n
Smith was taken into custody at the scene.<\/p>\n
Daniel S. Smith was charged with:<\/p>\n
Assault in the Second Degree (Class D felony)Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree (Class C felony)Endangering the Welfare of a Child (Class A misdemeanor)<\/p>\n
A 14-year-old child was present during the incident, which resulted in the charge of Endangering the Welfare of a Child.<\/p>\n
Smith was transported to the Oswego County Correctional Facility pending arraignment.<\/p>\n
A Temporary Extreme Risk Protection Order (TERPO) investigation was also initiated in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n
As a result of the investigation, Jerry B. White was charged with:<\/p>\n
Four counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree (Class D felony)One count of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree (Class D felony)Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree (Class A misdemeanor)<\/p>\n
White was also transported to the Oswego County Correctional Facility pending arraignment.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On August 20, 2026, at approximately 6:38 p.m., State Police responded to 2352 U.S. Route 11 in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-327334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}