A suspect is in custody and a wounded police officer has been released from the hospital after a shooting during an attempted break-in Tuesday morning in Rochester, N.Y., according to local reports.
Rochester’s interim chief of police, Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan, declined to release the officer’s name Tuesday evening but identified the man in custody as 54-year-old James Hunter, who was paroled from prison.
Police responded to an alleged attempted break-in on Hague Street around 8 a.m. Hunter is accused of firing at the first responding officer, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported.The bullet struck the officer’s upper body, and police tracked down Hunter with the help of a K-9 unit. "When the officer arrived, immediately upon his.