On the morning of June 22, 2025, 30-year-old David Vazquez was shot multiple times at point-blank range during a verbal dispute behind a residence on Oscar Street in Rochester. The property is described as an active drug house. Vazquez was found in the backyard at about 7 a.m. and had already died of his injuries. The assailant took Vazquez’s money and fled on a bicycle.

Later that morning police developed a suspect description and encountered a man matching it—35-year-old Edison Estremera-Cohen—riding a bicycle near North Clinton Avenue. When officers tried to stop him he ran; during the ensuing foot chase he fired a 9mm handgun at an officer, who was nearly struck and suffered head and ear injuries from the muzzle flash. An officer returned fire, striking Estremera-Cohen three times. He was taken to the hospital in stable condition.

Estremera-Cohen was charged with two counts of murder in the second degree and first-degree robbery in connection with Vazquez’s death, plus attempted aggravated murder of a police officer and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon for the shootout. He pleaded not guilty and was held without bail; he was awaiting sentencing on two prior felony convictions for criminal possession of a controlled substance from the previous summer. Does anyone have information about Vazquez, the events on Oscar Street, or witnesses who were in the area that morning?