In the pre-dawn hours of April 22, 2024, in Rochester, New York, 45-year-old taxi driver David Treese III answered a fare on First Street that turned deadly. The passenger, identified as 36-year-old David Porter, entered the cab armed with a handgun and immediately began pistol-whipping Treese while demanding money. As the taxi pulled away, Porter continued the assault and fired five to six shots at close range, striking Treese multiple times in the upper body.

Despite his wounds, Treese drove to Bay Street, where he stumbled from the vehicle and collapsed on the sidewalk; he died at the scene. Porter then took the taxi, crashed it into a tree on Central Park, abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot. A camera mounted inside the cab recorded the entire incident. Officers were alerted to the crash at about 3:20 a.m., and Treese’s body was discovered roughly an hour later.

Investigators identified David Porter as the primary suspect and arrested him the next day, April 23, 2024, at an apartment in Chili. He faced charges that included murder, robbery and weapons offenses. Does anyone have information about Treese’s work that night or saw activity on First Street or Bay Street in the early hours of April 22?