On the morning of September 21, 2024, deputies in Lyons, New York, responded to 911 calls reporting a domestic violence incident and gunfire at an apartment on Maple Street. Officers found 40-year-old Shawn G. Rahn dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. A woman at the residence had called Rahn, described by his daughter as a protector, to help during a dispute; Rahn lived nearby and was a family friend who went to intervene.

Investigators say 37-year-old Randolph L. Scott, a resident of the apartment, shot Rahn with an illegally obtained handgun. Scott was identified as the suspect, taken into custody about two hours later at a neighboring residence, and the weapon was recovered. He was charged with Murder in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, arraigned the next day and remanded without bail. Authorities continue investigating how the illegal handgun and ammunition were obtained.

Did anyone in the area see or hear anything that morning or have information about how the weapon reached that residence?