{"id":795845,"date":"2026-07-31T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795845\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:37:10","slug":"officers-disperse-overnight-crowds-after-shots-fired-bottles-thrown-rochester-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795845\/","title":{"rendered":"Officers disperse overnight crowds after shots fired, bottles thrown, Rochester police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 Officers broke up large crowds in the overnight hours on the city&#8217;s north side, according to the Rochester Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Nicholas Adams said officers said officers &#8220;began addressing crowds of several hundred individuals&#8221; along North Clinton Avenue between Upper Falls Boulevard and Avenue D around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, continuing for several hours, with &#8220;several&#8221; glass bottles thrown toward officers as they attempted to clear the area.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a group of at least 100 people assembled in the area of Morrill and Remington streets. Adams said multiple people in the group fired guns at 2:44 a.m. Friday, prompting large groups of pedestrians and vehicles to flee the area. No one was struck by gunfire, but several vehicles and at least one occupied home were.<\/p>\n<p>Adams said police surrounded a nearby home and questioned the occupants, but no arrests were made. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The incident came one week after the city <a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/news\/local\/city-of-rochester-bans-large-late-night-public-gatherings-fourth-of-july-violence-shootings-stabbings-crime-mayor-malik-evans-gun-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced a ban on gatherings of 10 or more people <\/a>in the overnight hours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 Officers broke up large crowds in the overnight hours on the city&#8217;s north side, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-795845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}