Jason L. Oates was 32 when he was shot and killed in Rome, New York, on the evening of Thursday, March 28, 2013. Officers responding to gunfire in the rear parking lot of the Rome YMCA on West Bloomfield Street found Oates unresponsive with a fatal gunshot wound. He was originally from Alabama and known to friends as Clutch; he was living a short distance from where he was killed.

The death has been investigated as a homicide. Witnesses described a male wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt running from the parking lot, seen fleeing south on Stevens Street and then west on West Thomas Street. Robbery did not appear to be the motive. No arrests have been announced, and investigators and Mohawk Valley Crime Stoppers are offering up to a $1,500 reward for information that leads to an arrest.

Are there readers who were in that neighborhood that night or who have any information about the person seen running from the scene?