A routine traffic dispute escalated into fatal violence in Rochester on October 31, 2020. Thirty-three-year-old David Alvarez was shot thirteen times by a man identified as Steven Berrios-Rivera after a motor vehicle accident; Alvarez was privately transported to Rochester General Hospital but died of gunshot wounds to his upper body shortly after arrival. Alvarez and Berrios-Rivera were strangers at the time of the crash.

Berrios-Rivera, a Pennsylvania resident, fled New York after the shooting. The Rochester Police Department identified him as the suspect about four months later; he was located in York, Pennsylvania, and extradited to Monroe County to face charges. On March 15, 2022, Berrios-Rivera, then 27, pleaded guilty to Murder in the 2nd Degree in connection with Alvarez’s death. The case began with what officials described as a minor traffic incident that turned deadly.

Did anyone in Rochester or York have information about the October 31, 2020 traffic dispute or the men involved?