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A New Year’s celebration in Rochester, New York, ended in a fatal shooting in the early hours of January 1, 2014. Twenty-three-year-old Terrance Beatty was shot and killed at a party on Lois Street; another man, 27-year-old Brandon Pearce, was shot in the foot and survived. Beatty was known to some as WIKKED!!! and was described as a rapper.

Police identified a suspect as 17-year-old Anthony Scott Ortiz, saying an altercation involving a friend of Ortiz escalated into gunfire. Ortiz was arrested and charged in connection with the shootings. In March 2015 a Monroe County jury found Ortiz, by then 19, guilty of Murder in the Second Degree, Assault in the Second Degree, and two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree.

Did anyone at the party or in the neighborhood notice anything in the hours before the shooting that could help piece together what happened?