BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Buffalo police say one man is in custody after a string of crimes on Sunday, including a shooting at a youth football game in Buffalo, sending one to the hospital.
Police describe a complicated and rapidly changing situation that started at 11 a.m. with a gun call on Moselle Street, saying the suspect allegedly:
- Forced a man and woman into his car, taking the woman's phone so she could not call for help
- Drove to a youth football game off of Koons Avenue
- Robbed two people at the game, taking a woman's phone and a man's chains
- Shot a man at the game, hitting him twice
- Tried to leave the scene in the same car, with the female victim still inside
Ferry-Fillmore officers responded around 11:30 a.m. at the corner of Sycamore Street and Koons Avenue, right near Harvey Austin Elementary School.
The suspect then put the car into reverse, per police, ultimately crashing on Koons Avenue where police arrested him and recovered a gun.
The shooting victim is a 31-year-old man from Rochester, he was taken to ECMC and treated for non-life-threatening injuries, per police.
Rahaan Mallory, 29 is in custody, on parole and facing a number of charges including kidnapping in the second degree, attempted murder, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.
