On the evening of May 22, 2025, gunfire on Clay Hill Road in Fort Ann, New York, left two 19-year-olds from Glens Falls dead. Responding troopers and Washington County deputies found Marcus J. Macaulay and Adam M. Darrah lying in the roadway with life-threatening gunshot wounds; both were taken to Glens Falls Hospital and pronounced deceased.
Marcus Macaulay was a 2024 graduate of Glens Falls High School with a BOCES welding certification. He worked as a line cook at Texas Roadhouse in Queensbury, enjoyed fast cars and weightlifting, was a certified scuba diver with hopes of becoming an underwater welder, and planned to enlist in the U.S. Army. Witnesses reported a white sedan speeding away and someone at the scene banging on a car window asking that 911 be called; a roadside memorial appeared on Clay Hill Road.
Within 48 hours police arrested David M. Larose, 20, and Jordan P. Johnson, 18, charging them with two counts of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon; a third person, an adolescent offender, was also later charged. Court papers say the killings were believed to have followed a robbery attempt, and Johnson faced additional tampering charges. Larose and Johnson were indicted by a grand jury and held without bail pending proceedings in Washington County Court.
If anyone knew Marcus or saw activity on Clay Hill Road that night, please share information with investigators.