While the goal of the site is to solicit tips from the community, it also serves as a tool to keep hope alive. That clearance rate of roughly 75 percent is above the national average, which the FBI pegged at 62 percent in 2018. Rochester has seen 2,197 homicides since 1969, according to police, and Umbrino said about a quarter of them remain unsolved. I was told there were 20 to 30 people out that night on that corner watching this altercation.” “It was July, a nice summer night on a corner where there’s a store and a barber shop. Her son, Jason Wilder, was beaten to death on Clinton Avenue in 2019 after she said he was mistakenly thought to be part of an altercation happening on the street. Genora Wilder is also searching for closure. “We’re not giving up, we want this solved, and it’s up to the community to call and give tips, anything you can provide to solve this case,” Hyland said. The oldest is Jose Bas, who was shot while working at his convenience store on Conkey Avenue in November, 1972.īas’s granddaughter, Arleen Hyland, said she and her mother, Milda Bas, are still seeking answers. The most recent case in the database is that of Jordan Coleman, a 16-year-old who was shot and killed on Clifford Avenue in March. “It’s frustrating, because although in the vast majority of cases we may know who did it, being able to prove this in front of a jury is an extremely difficult task,” Umbrino said. “When we left that meeting, I remember telling Sirena Cotton we were going to do this if I have to pay for it myself.”Ĭaptain Frank Umbrino specified that cold cases are defined not by how long ago the crime occured but by those in which all available leads have been exhausted without an arrest and subsequent prosecution. “We put our heads together and decided to push this forward,” Herriott-Sullivan said. The group’s founder, Sirena Cotton, lost her son Christopher Jones in a still-unsolved shooting in 2007. She credited members of the grassroots violence prevention group Roc the Peace with the idea for the site. In announcing the initiative, interim Police Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan said the goal was to bring closure to families who lost loved ones to violence. The website,, contains a searchable database of victims, with brief descriptions of the location, date of death, and manner of death alongside links to relevant news articles about the victims.Ībout 100 cases were available on the site upon its launch, with more to be added over time. The Rochester Police Department on Thursday launched a website that will eventually catalog the department’s 554 unsolved homicides dating to 1969 in an effort to close the cold cases.
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