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Two dead and two critically injured in fiery crash outside Kodak Center; FBI confirms they’re investigating
whec.com ^ | 1/1/24 | Evan Bourtis and Bonnie Marrocco

Posted on 01/01/2024 4:05:13 PM PST by AbolishCSEU

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Two people died and two others were seriously injured in a fiery crash Monday morning outside the Kodak Center for Performing Arts on West Ridge Road. The FBI and RPD Major Crimes Unit confirmed that they’re investigating the crash.

At about 12:50 a.m., Rochester Police officers were assigned to the Kodak Center for a concert with about 1,000 people. Just before the crosswalk in front of the venue, an eastbound Ford Expedition hit a Mitsubishi Outlander that was leaving the parking lot. The force of the crash caused the two SUVs to go through a group of pedestrians in the crosswalk, and into two other cars There was a large fire from the crash that took the Rochester Fire Department almost one hour to put out.

Two of the people in the Mitsubishi Outlander were killed and the driver was taken to the hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening. Numerous pedestrians, including a RPD officer, were almost hit by the vehicles. Three pedestrians were hit and taken to the hospital, one of them is in life-threatening condition, and the other two are not in life-threatening condition. The driver of the Ford Expedition is currently in the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Once the fire was put out, first responders found at least a dozen gas cans in and around the Ford Expedition. The Rochester Police Department Bomb Squad and the Joint Arson Task Force responded to the scene. Police continue to work with our federal partners, including the FBI, to learn exactly what led to this crash.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: crime; ny; rochester; terror
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To: pops88

“Sounds anti-Semitic with the large Jewish population Rochester has.”

Strange...Rochester has a Mayor named MALIK Evans...


21 posted on 01/01/2024 6:00:30 PM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦..."Christian-Nationalists" won WWII...Biden NOT NEXT DNC nominee!o)
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To: billorites

Kodak still exists....sort of.

Certainly not as Eastman Kodak any longer.


22 posted on 01/01/2024 6:17:19 PM PST by Ouderkirk (The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.)
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To: AbolishCSEU

Hmmm, indeed. Wouldn’t this be considered a “local crime” (the excuse the national media uses not to report on so many criminal actions— the Gosnell horror being one I can think of)?

Why are the FBI involved? It is just a car accident. Wouldn’t a local police investigation be all that is needed.


23 posted on 01/01/2024 6:21:31 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: AbolishCSEU

Why the FBI needs to be there is a question...

Was either of the drivers screaming Allahu Akbar?


24 posted on 01/01/2024 6:34:17 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Nik Naym
At one time Kodak employed 60,000 people in rochester.

My wife had two cousins who lived in Webster, next door to Rochester. One was a nurse at Kodak, and her husband a technician. They had a very nice life. The other was an executive with Xerox, and his wife's father was one of the largest home builders in the area. They had a wonderful house and a lot of toys. Sad to see what happened to the area since. The female cousin and husband retired about 20 years ago, and are in pretty good shape, living in Virginia. The male was a little younger and had to scramble some, but landed on his feet.

25 posted on 01/01/2024 6:57:20 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Bonemaker

Kodachrome


26 posted on 01/01/2024 7:08:08 PM PST by Bratch
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To: AbolishCSEU

The gas cans lend themselves to other demographics.


27 posted on 01/01/2024 8:56:59 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Larry Lucido
"Ironically, there are no photos of the crash scene."

Nope, no "Kodak moment" there.

28 posted on 01/02/2024 12:19:06 AM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: hanamizu

I dunno. The FBI probably hasn’t yet created a conservative MAGA perpetrator back story yet.


29 posted on 01/02/2024 12:50:44 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: billorites
Probably as much as the New York Herald. The Newspaper went out if business in 1924, but the corner of Sixth Avenue and 34th street is still remembered as Herald Square
30 posted on 01/02/2024 1:11:41 AM PST by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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To: AbolishCSEU

No one ever gets identified in these “news” articles anymore. Especially the driver of the Ford who is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries. He is probably why the FBI got involved. Adds new meaning to the phrase: “He was driving a real bomb”.


31 posted on 01/02/2024 3:06:14 AM PST by 4Runner
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