On the evening of July 21, 2022, 54-year-old veteran Rochester police officer Anthony Mazurkiewicz was ambushed while conducting surveillance in an unmarked vehicle on Bauman Street. He and his partner, Officer Sino Seng, were sitting in the van when a man approached from behind and fired about 17 rounds into the vehicle. Mazurkiewicz was struck in the upper body and later died at Strong Memorial Hospital. Officer Seng was shot in the lower body and survived after treatment and release. A stray bullet grazed a 15-year-old girl when it pierced the wall of a nearby home.

Police located and arrested a suspect within an hour, finding him hiding in the crawl space of a vacant house near the scene. The man, identified as 21-year-old Kelvin Vickers of Boston, was found with a loaded 9mm handgun later tied to the attack. Investigators say Vickers was linked to a wider spree in which two other men, Richard Collinge and MyJel Rand, were also fatally shot in the days before the officers were attacked.

Officer Mazurkiewicz was a 29-year veteran of the Rochester Police Department, a husband, father of four, and grandfather of three. What details about the motive or sequence of events leading up to the ambush remain unclear to the public? If anyone has information about the shootings or knew Anthony, please come forward.