A fight outside a Lyell Avenue bar in Rochester ended in a fatal shooting that killed 36-year-old Derek Taylor in the early hours of July 24, 2022. Police found Taylor with a gunshot wound to his torso; he was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital and died shortly after arrival. The case was listed as the city’s 44th homicide that year.

Investigators identified a suspect and on August 5, 2022 arrested 32-year-old Joseph Scott, charging him with second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Prosecutors alleged the confrontation escalated after a chase to Lyell Avenue and Whitney Street, where Taylor was shot in the chest. At trial the jury acquitted Scott of murder but convicted him on the weapons counts; he received a 10-year sentence in May 2024.

Anyone who saw the altercation outside the bar that night or who remembers Taylor in the neighborhood is asked to come forward with information.