Buffalo · East Side

Male Down at 307 Edison, Shot in the Mouth, One Casing on the Ground; Homicide Called to the Scene

At 12:19 PM a caller on Tony-Claire told BPD dispatchers she had heard shots and could see “someone in the grass.” Within ninety seconds units on scene were confirming: “Clear, male has been shot”. “One down, confirmed, shooting clear,” a second unit added. Casings were on the ground and officers began securing the scene for evidence.

Tower 242 corrected the location to 307 Edison and reported “one shell casing behind, male shot, what appears to be in the mouth, slight breath.” AMR was four minutes out. Homicide was called at 12:27 PM while a supervisor asked Charlie and Bravo cars to backfill Delta district while every available Edward car worked the scene. At 12:34 PM a witness described the victim standing outside with a Hispanic male in a beard and a white t-shirt “and then she heard the shot and then she didn’t see the subject again” moments before the shot; the suspect vanished immediately after.

By 12:39 PM a second witness at the scene had fainted and needed her own ambulance. Two hours later BPD was still working the address — at 2:08 PM the C-E dispatcher rolled ADI back to 307 Edison for what she called “a related medical event,” and at 2:22 PM the sector supervisor asked for $7,000 to protect Vehicle 129 tied to the shooting investigation. No public confirmation of the victim’s condition came across the trunk during the window.

Amherst · North French Road

Follow-Home Robbery in Amherst: Accomplices Trail Man From Tops Gas Station, Wrestle a Bracelet Off His Wrist, Flee in a Black Audi SUV

Amherst PD at 1:36 PM was working a follow-home robbery near the Tops gas plaza on North French Road. According to units on scene, “people got out and took the male’s bracelet off of his wrist; no weapons were deployed”, and while no weapons were shown, the group rolled up in numbers and put hands on him at his own address.

PICCO cameras and witnesses put the suspect vehicle as a black Audi SUV that turned onto North French. Two females of Middle Eastern descent were reported inside; the male driver was also described as Middle Eastern. Officers checked Delta Sonic and the French Oaks properties without success and worked spot-checks toward Maple and Boulevard as the SUV went westbound on French. Detectives told dispatch to log the case as an evidence-and-report and take it in for follow-up.

Amherst · Foxbury Drive

Landscaping-Crew Wood-Chipper Injury on Foxbury: 18-Year-Old Loses a Chunk of Leg to the Bone, Tourniquet Applied, ECMC-Bound

At 11:23 AM Amherst PD called an urgent EMS resource to 469 Foxbury Drive: “18-year-old male, severe laceration, down to the bone, sustained somehow with a grappling hook”. Amherst Fire had East Amherst EMS enroute with a tourniquet; medics marked the tourniquet applied at 11:10 AM in their run sheet.

By 11:27 AM the officer on scene had the update: the crew had already loaded the patient into their own vehicle and rolled to ECMC without waiting for the ambulance — “apparently it was some type of injury involving a wood chopper or something” — and PD stayed to interview the remaining landscapers about what exactly went wrong.

Buffalo · East Side

Two BPD SWAT Search Warrants in Four Hours: Flashbangs at 73 Sumner Just After Sunrise, Narcotics Detail at 63 Amber Before Noon

At 7:04 AM, BPD Districts C-E put out the standard neighborhood safety notice: “1580, 73 Sumner out with SWAT — if you got any shots or calls, they were flashbangs”. The SWAT team was in front of 73 Sumner, upper and lower, working with NLCM on a warrant service. At 7:11 AM the entry team came back to the trunk with the confirmation: “Flashback deployed, no shots fired.” A silver Chevy Malibu was tagged in front of the address; the operation cleared quietly.

Just before 11:00 AM the pattern repeated in Alpha District: an Adam-15 unit told dispatch “we’re out with SWAT and Narcotics at 6-3 Amber, no shots fired”, then requested a formal time and case number for a search warrant execution at 63 Amber. Dog control was requested a few minutes later. No shots, no evacuation, no injuries reported on the air from either operation — two separate morning warrants, both cleared without incident.

Lackawanna · 50 Elkhart

“She Said She Was Kidnapped”: Alarming Call to Lackawanna PD Resolves With the Woman Safe in an Upstairs Apartment

At 9:47 AM Lackawanna Radio put an attempt-to-locate out to cars 23 and 24 for 50 Elkhart. A friend calling from Haven House said her friend had been missing for two days; the friend had then reached her by phone and reported “she’s at 50 Elkhart, she’s injured and she needs help and that she was kidnapped by her abuser”. The party used only the nickname “Benta” — a 36-year-old Black female, short black hair, around 5’4”.

Fifteen minutes later, at 10:00 AM, the update came back clean: officers had located the woman in the upstairs apartment. Real name Diallo, first name Pinta F., date of birth 4-12-1995. “she did not wish to speak with officers but did state that she is safe and she was advised”. Radio cleared the call, and the case shifted from a possible kidnapping to a wellness note.

Amherst · Traffic stop

Toddler-in-the-Driver’s-Seat Report of the Summer, Delivered Deadpan Over Amherst PD

At 2:27 PM an Amherst PD officer put this update on the trunk with the flat cadence of someone reporting the weather: “the two-year-old managed to start the car from the car seat with the keys”. No follow-up came across the frequency about whose vehicle it was, whose keys, or how far it got, but a summer’s worth of parenting advice can be inferred from that one line.

Amherst · Wehrle Drive

Best Health Patient Loses His Pants, His Composure, and Then His Trail on Wehrle

At 1:22 PM Amherst PD picked up a call from staff at the Best Health clinic on Sweet Home Road. Per the complaint: “subject shows up for the appointment under the influence, took off his pants because he soiled them; he left on foot towards Wehrle”. Cars fanned toward the area looking, per the airwaves, for “a white female, late 40s, with no pants on” — an internally inconsistent search description that dispatchers wrestled with for another minute before hunting stopped.

Amherst · Backyard call

Two Dogs, One Pool, Zero Owners: Amherst PD Called On Suburban Bassett-Hound Home Invasion

At 8:14 AM, an Amherst PD unit relayed the following call for a welfare check: “resident reports they have a pool in the backyard; two dogs are swimming in the backstreet”. A follow-up officer, apparently unmoved by the crisis, added “7-4, still in the neighborhood.” The pool-crashers were not named on the trunk.

Amherst · 200 Saratoga

“Wanders Near the Entrance, Sleeps on the Bench”: Amherst’s Old Water Tower Gets a Regular

At 8:24 AM Amherst PD ran a suspicious-person call, remarkable mostly for how much detail the caller had already collected: “suspicious person, 200 Saratoga, the part of the old water tower area — Hispanic male, large build, backpack, t-shirt, wanders near the entrance at Washington Highway, sleeps on the bench”. Fifty minutes later, an unrelated Amherst check on Washington Highway turned up a party dozing in a Toyota with the door open, dealing suspected by a passing officer — confirming, if nothing else, that Wednesday mornings on the Saratoga strip run a certain type.

Amherst · Alden Road

Amherst PD, 7:43 AM: “There Appears to Be a Deceased Cat on KC Near Avalon Meadows”

The first traffic on the Amherst-Clarence trunk this morning, before the first EMS run and before the first commercial fire alarm, was an officer’s public-service note: “there appears to be a deceased cat on KC near Avalon Meadows on the north side of the road”. “I don’t know if you want to check it out or not,” he added, and then — 10-4 — he asked radio to “make an entry for that; I’ll stop and scan it when I’m done.” Ballad of Wednesday morning in the suburbs.

Amherst · 3980 Sheridan

Compound Ankle Fracture on the Front Steps at Dent Tower

Snyder EMS was pulled to 3980 Sheridan Drive, Dent Tower, between North Campus and Harlem, at 9:43 AM: “44-year-old female fell on the front steps, possible compound ankle fracture”. Amherst Fire had Snyder 91 shift a second call to Snyder 7 so 91 could stay with the fall patient; medics loaded and rolled with no further complications noted on the frequency.

Amherst · 402 Dan Troy

85-Year-Old Falls Hard at 402 Dan Troy Drive, Serious Bleeding From a Head Laceration

Amherst Fire had Main-Transit EMS enroute to 402 Dan Troy Drive at 12:45 PM. Dispatch: “85-year-old female, serious bleeding from a head laceration from a fall”. Amherst PD flagged the elderly female as bleeding from the head on their initial channel and had a car on scene with the patient before medics arrived.

Buffalo · East Side

“Violent, Threatening to Kill Significant [Other]”: BFD Puts Ladder 6 With Engine 22 to 122 Colorado

Buffalo Fire pushed Ladder 6 with Engine 22 to 122 Colorado at 11:13 AM for a call BFD dispatchers announced as a State/State Police EMS support: “males, uh, violent, threatening to kill significant [other]”. The block sits between Genesee and East Ferry; no updates on the resolution came across the fire trunk before Ladder 6 cleared.

Cheektowaga · Walden Avenue

Multiple Fire Alarms From Multiple Zones at the Connex Buffalo Building on Walden

Cheektowaga Fire Dispatch got its first morning multiple-zone call at 8:49 AM: “we have multiple alarms from multiple different areas at Connex Buffalo Corporation at 2300 Walden Avenue”. CFD held Cheektowaga engines on standby until the alarm company or on-site staff could confirm cause; the trunk carried no expansion after the initial page.

Southtowns · 6000 South Park

Two-Vehicle Injury Accident in Front of the M&T Bank at 6000 South Park

Town of Hamburg Fire pushed to 6000 South Park Avenue at 1:06 PM for a two-vehicle MVA at the M&T Bank frontage: “auto accident with injury in front of 6000 South Park Avenue in front of the M&T Bank; two vehicles; male reported with a head injury”. Dispatch had the response time out at 1:05 PM and left investigation to Hamburg PD.