J’Mere Ridley-Smith, a 25-year-old Black man from Rochester, New York, was fatally shot on July 26, 2025. The shooting occurred at about 4:15 p.m. inside the Wegmans distribution center on Brooks Avenue in the Town of Gates, where Ridley-Smith worked. Responding officers found him in a cooler area of the facility with multiple gunshot wounds; life-saving measures were attempted but he was pronounced dead.

Investigators identified a coworker, 32-year-old Kyshonn Green of Gates, as the suspect. Reports say an argument between the two in the Wegmans parking lot took place before the shooting. Green fled the state and was arrested the next day, July 27, 2025, in Knoxville, Tennessee, after stepping off a Greyhound bus; U.S. Marshals took him into custody and recovered a gun believed to be the weapon used. A Monroe County grand jury indicted Green on one count of second-degree murder; he pleaded not guilty at his August 12, 2025 arraignment and is being held without bail.

Did anyone who worked at the Wegmans distribution center that day see or hear anything that could help explain what led to the shooting?