Rochester's first homicide of 2019 occurred early on New Year’s Day. Thirty-year-old Arthur Stevens was shot and killed inside a home on Stout Street on January 1, 2019, at about 5:00 a.m. Officers called after reports of a shooting found Stevens deceased inside the residence. A 29-year-old woman, Lisa Johnson, sustained a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to her upper body and was taken to a local hospital and later released.

The investigation continued for several months. In April 2019, Rochester police arrested 24-year-old Shane Jones and charged him with murder and assault in connection with Stevens’s death and Johnson’s injury; Jones was arraigned following the arrest.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or knew Arthur, please come forward to help with the case.