GATES, N.Y. – New information has emerged about the deadly shooting at an Amazon fulfillment center in Gates on Thursday. Police identified the victim as 24-year-old Markis Ortiz-Harris from Rochester. Officials said the suspect shot Ortiz-Harris while he was sitting in his car waiting to start his shift.
News10NBC’s Declan Stablow was in Gates speaking with witnesses of the attack. Employees said they weren’t able to speak with media, but Amazon stated this is not their policy. A nearby resident, Charles Parsons, shared his observations.
“I saw several police pull into the Amazon facility. I also heard sirens, seeing other EMS responders turn into the Amazon facility,” said Parsons. He learned about the shooting through social media, but the seriousness was apparent even before then.
“For several hours, I see they were staging employees over in the field across the street from Amazon, and they weren’t allowed to make it into the facility so that’s how I knew it was something serious,” Parsons said.
Parsons expressed concern for the neighborhood despite police describing the shooting as isolated. “Just hope that people would stop resulting in gun violence as a way to resolve their issues, you know there’s more civil ways to act. This isn’t the wild wild west,” said Parsons.
Police confirmed there is no indication the shooter was an Amazon employee. The suspect remains at large.
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