The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/category/news/ithaca/)
The Ithaca Police Department will terminate an officer directly responsible for handling sex crimes in the department’s investigative division, the Mayor’s office announced in a press release Thursday. An internal IPD investigation found a slew of failures to sufficiently investigate a range of cases in the division over the last 10 years.
At 11:12 p.m., the fire was still burning, and smoke could be smelled from Collegetown.
Since his appointment in June, Nayor served as Acting Chief during a summer that saw two fatal stabbings and a downtown shooting.
Cornellians flocked to the Commons on Saturday for the fourth annual C.U. Downtown, a foray for students into exploring downtown Ithaca, featuring performances from Cornell organizations, free doughnuts and plenty of give-away silicone phone wallets.
Police say the primary suspect, Andre Martin, used a .357 caliber revolver, firing five shots. A search for Martin is ongoing.
Acting Ithaca Police Department Chief Dennis Nayor told reporters that there is nothing that would indicate any current public threat. The shooter and suspect are both male, Nayor said. The suspect has been taken into custody and the victim was transported via ambulance.
The plans include an outdoor gathering space similar to Collegetown Bagels’ busy outdoor plaza. The plans may not include Collegetown Bagels.
At around 2:21 a.m., a suspect ran towards the victim while displaying a “‘large machete’ type knife” and demanding property. The Ithaca Police Department responded to the incident around the 100 block of Oak Avenue, and reported that the victim was not physically injured.
In the hours after the fatal incident, the Cornell community reacted strongly on social media — not to the stabbing, but to a series of alerts sent out by the CornellALERT system.
While this is not an immediate health concern, contamination does point to a larger issue regarding how waste disposal impacts the environment, according to researchers Dr. Jose Luzano M.S.’88 Ph.D. ’91 and Prof. Susan Allen-Gil of Ithaca College.
University Police are currently investigating a string of thefts that occurred between the evening of June 25 and the early morning of June 26 at the Hasbrouck Apartments, located near North Campus at 121 Pleasant Grove Rd next to the Townhouse Apartments.
