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February 1, 2012

Staff Reports Niagara Gazette The Niagara Gazette Wed Feb 01, 2012, 11:20 PM EST

NIAGARA FALLS — NIAGARA FALLS

Police still hunting gunman

Cataract City cops say they are stilling looking for a suspect who attacked a man in a Unity Park apartment and then shot up the victim’s car.

Police said they responded to a call of “shots fired” about 7:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 3300 block of Ninth Street.

A 25-year-old man told officers he had been inside an apartment there, along with several other adults and children, when he saw a man standing in the kitchen “holding a silver-colored revolver” at his side.

The suspect told the victim. “I thought we been through this (expletive). I got my gun, but you ain’t got yours.”

The victim said he and the suspect then began to argue and he was struck in the head with the revolver by the suspect.

After punching the suspect in his face and pushing him out of the apartment, the victim said he heard three gunshots. Police then discovered three bullet holes in the victim’s car.

No one was injured during the shooting.

Information from witnesses then led officers to a home in the 1800 block of South Avenue. For a brief period of time, police surrounded a the home and called for the Emergency Response Team.

Before the ERT could deploy, officers were able to enter and search the home and did not find the suspect.

The suspect is described as a black male in his 20s, about 5-feet-8 and weighing about 250 pounds. He was last seen wearing a brown sweatshirt that may have had the letter C on it.

Niagara Falls

• ARREST: A Falls woman was arrested after a shoplifting incident at a supermarket in the 7200 block of Niagara Falls Boulevard. Deborah J. Schmidt, 52, 1264 90th St., was charged with petit larceny. A store manager told police that Schmidt entered the store at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday and took more than $14 worth of merchandise without paying for it.

• BURGLARY: Police are investigating a burglary in the 3900 block of Lewiston Road. A 71-year-old woman told officers while she was home and talking on the phone at 8:25 p.m. Tuesday she heard a “thud” coming from the first floor of the residence. The victim said she ignored the sound and when her husband came home a short time later, he found a 54-inch TV, a computer tower and printer and four jewelry boxes were missing. Officers later discovered that the rear door of the home had been forced open.

• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested after a domestic incident in the 3500 block of Chapin Avenue at 12:35 a.m. Wednesday. Dominick Mark Justiana, 24, 3562 Chapin Ave., was charged with third-degree assault, criminal obstruction of breathing, third-degree menacing and second-degree harassment.

Wheatfield

• GRAND LARCENY: Precision Process of Liberty Drive reported that sometime between 6 p.m. on Jan. 27 and 9 a.m. on Monday someone removed six steel coils from a side parking. The coils weigh 400 pounds and are valued at approximately $900 each. During the same time period, Precious Plate had several thousand dollars worth of metals removed from a work area at the Bell Plant on Niagara Falls Boulevard. The estimated value of all missing items is $5,400.

North Tonawanda

• SEXUAL ACT: Jorden W. Litz, 23, 165 Timperlink Drive, Grand Island, was charged at 11:14 a.m. Tuesday with first-degree criminal sexual act. Litz was arraigned in North Tonawanda City Court and released on $10,000 bail.

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