On July 9, 2024, around 1:45 p.m. a dispute outside a home on Lorenzo Street in Rochester, New York, moved onto the front porch of 32-year-old Jeremy Prescott and ended with gunfire. Prescott, a Black man, was struck in the upper body and was pronounced dead at the scene when first responders arrived.

The Rochester Police Department opened a homicide investigation and quickly identified 34-year-old Kendrick Morrison-Cook as a suspect. Two days after the shooting police took Morrison-Cook into custody without incident; he was charged with second-degree murder, arraigned on July 12, 2024, pleaded not guilty, and was ordered held without bail in the Monroe County Jail.

Prosecutors later reported they could not locate a key witness to testify as Morrison-Cook’s bench trial began; the indictment was dismissed in June 2025 and charges were dropped. As of that dismissal, Prescott’s murder remains unsolved. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or Crime Stoppers at 423-9300.

Did anyone in Rochester see or hear anything on Lorenzo Street that afternoon that could help bring clarity to what happened?