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It's 802 on Rochester Source for Breaking News, Weather and Traffic. News Radio Wham 1180. A Rochester man in critical condition after his shooting in the Edgerton neighborhood. Police say the 18-year-old was hit the upper body just before 9.30 last night at Emerson Street and Saudi Way. Investigators don't know yet what led up to that shooting, and so far there are no arrests. Timothy Coon released from jail, taunted by family and friends of the 8-year-old he was accused of killing. They're the child killer. They did it! They did it. And innocent man does it ride. And it's two. You're sitting there looking all due. Coon was charged with secondary murder and arson for the February 2004 fire on Yates Street that killed Savannah Streber, with Judge Stephen Miller dismissed the indictment against Coon, saying his speedy trial rights were violated. District Attorney Brian Green says his office only now discovered new information about the investigation that came to light back in 2005 and turned the information over to Coon's defense. The trial of three former Marcy Corrections officers will continue today. Matthew Geller, Nicholas Kiefer, and David Kingsley are all charged with murder in the beating death of inmate Robert Brooks, Special Prosecutor William Fitzpatrick. They're all charged with depraved mind murder. A carefully orchestrated act, the evidence will show of sheer unimaginable brutality. The beating was caught on body camera. The three are being tried and fraud of one jury and each face life in prison if convicted. Dave Debo, News Radio Wham, 1180. A former Lions High School boys basketball coach charged. with sex crimes due in court later this morning. Dean Schott III is charged with Criminal Sex Act and sexual abuse. When shot was arrested back in August, Wayne County Sheriff Robert Millby didn't describe the crimes but feared that there were many victims. We believe that he used his position in order to prey upon and have access to quite a large number of students. We believe he used his position in accessing those students. So that's why we do believe that there are more out there. The district says they had received a complaint that shot was involved with a student several years ago. That triggered the investigation. An FBI corruption unit has been shut down after it reportedly monitored communications between some Republican senators. An FBI unit is being shut down and some agents fired after a Fox News report this week found agents were monitoring communications from nearly a dozen GOP senators. Director Kash Patel said the unit known as CR-15 weaponized law enforcement against the American people. The unit was part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into President Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. I'm Rory O'Neill. A study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine finds incorporating just two minutes of exercise snacks into your daily routine can help your health. Here's what these so-called exercise snacks or snackivity won't do. They won't alter your body composition, blood pressure, or cholesterol levels. But a study of 11 randomized trials has found just two to five minutes of exercise a day can improve your overall health and fitness and significantly lower your risk of depression and premature death. Vicki Barker, CBS News, London. News Radio Whambley time is now 805. Thanks for listening to the morning news, sponsored by ZBard. And here he is. Bob Lonsbury on News Radio Wham 1180. Thanks, gentlemen. So appreciate that. Good morning, Rochester. Let me translate that last story there for you. Get off your ass. It's good for you. And it's an interesting sort of deal. We have become such a sedentary people. And much of this comes as a blessing.

Right? You and I aren't having to go out in the wilderness today, fight saber-toothed cats, killing mastodons to get our supper. You and I mostly will be indoors. When we go from point A to point B, it will be behind the wheel of an automobile. We may stop off at some point, visit Mr. Wegman's place, pick up our victuals, take them home, and if we're really self-reliant, we'll cook them ourselves. And there'll be a fair amount of couch sitting involved, and at least on my job, a whole bunch of chairs sitting for hours on end. And these things are all blessings. Yesterday when it was raining, I didn't get wet. No, I worked while it was raining. I was dry. I drove while it was raining. I was dry. I shopped while it was raining. And yet again, I was still dry. Worked out okay. And those things are blessings. But too much of a good thing is a bad thing. And too much of sitting on your ass is a bad thing. And our jobs demand it of us often. But we've got to learn how to shake a leg. And we've got to get back into a little bit more of how we were when we were kids. Right? We used to get up and go play. And you would think nothing of skipping or hopping or running or whatever else you wanted to do. And I would just politely say that that little news story is just the tiniest little indication of the good that can come to your body if you use it. That old phrase, use it or lose it. I think that applies to nothing more specifically or accurately than our bodies. And, you know, do not automatically accept that with the passage of time, you automatically have to get bigger and automatically have to become less physically capable. It's not that way. Boy, I can't remember the man's name. Was there a gentleman from Rochester whose last name was Frank, who was like some crazy marathoner? Years ago, I'd see him at races. I think we finished the Adirondic Marathon together once about 25 years ago. He was slower than molasses in January, which is how he came to be finishing with me. But this man was, I'm going to have to look him up or get somebody who remembers him personally. He was in his 70s or his 80s, and he was out there running marathons or shuffling marathons. How did he get to be an old guy who still had 26 miles in him? Because when he was a young guy and when he was a middle age guy, he got up off his ass and he got out and he did some things. If you keep living life, you tend to have a longer life. And at any rate, I forgive me, I'm not trying to scold anybody, not trying to be negative, whatever. But I have learned, there's the thing, I went in the Army a long time ago. And I had run before that in high school because I wasn't good enough to get on any of the other sports teams. So I ran cross country, ran track, and that was fine. And then I got in the Army. And in the Army, they wanted you to run. And the funny thing was, if you ran a fair amount, at least in those days, they thought that was really cool.

And that got you some, if you were a runner, they laid off you. You were good. And so I got in the habit of running most days. And I get out of the Army, and I stayed in the habit. And it's been almost 40 years since then. But I have thus far been blessed with fairly robust health. And I am by nature kind of a pansy. I have no particular strength. There is certainly no athletic ability. But the fact that, you know, people in the Army scared the crap out of me and convinced me that it was important to get up every day and go for a run has blessed me with a health, mobility, and a vigor that I'm fairly certain looking at, you know, others of my age from my high school class, looking at others in my family over the generations. It's blessed me with a physical vigor that, you know, others haven't had. It doesn't matter how old you are, what your situation. It's never too late to start. You may not go out and do run big stuff, but you can do some exercises there in your living room. You can join a YMCA somewhere and splish and splash in the pool, maybe walk around their track, go for a walk on a beautiful autumn day like this. Your body's a gift from God. Treat it like that. And you'd be surprised how well it will work for you. And of Jack Lillane Sermon. Time for Traffkin weather on the 10s on News Radio Wham 1180. From the Clark Peshkin Traffic Center, protect what you have. A will is not enough. Visit Clark Pishkin.com. Sign up now for a free estate planning workshop on October 22nd. Through a moving slowly in both directions, getting out through that Fisher's area. It's of ongoing construction over by 490. 490 west slowing down to Pittsburgh Victor Road. 490 east slowing down to Pittsburgh Palmyra Road. Watch for some stop and go traffic over on 590 northbound right at 490 a crash. 390 south building right by Chila. I'm Debbie Duhame. News Radio. Wham 1180. This report is sponsored by the White House Briefing Room podcast with John Decker. I'm John. Tar. Hurt in a car? Call William Matar. It's going to be partly cloudy today. We'll see a fair amount of sun, kind of pretty clouds, the autumnal clouds. The high will probably be in the upper 50s, just a little shy of 60 is the anticipation. It is 53 degrees at 812, and you're listening to News Radio, Wham 1180.

Yesterday, middle of the day, you know, you get the little alert on your phone, and you look down and you see that the charges against Timothy Coon, the man who set the fire that killed little Savannah Streber, had been dismissed and that he was walking free. It was staggering. It was enraging. It was almost incomprehensible. Well, I spent... a good portion of yesterday afternoon and evening talking to people who are smarter than I am trying to figure out what happened there and who we should be pissed off at. We're going to speak at 9.30 this morning to Brian Green, the district attorney of Monroe County, who's going to explain the best he can and the best the court will allow. I think that this matter has been sealed what transpired. And basically what happened is, in a nutshell, and I have a column that's up at wham1180.com. It's also at my Bob Lonsbury accounts on X and Facebook, if you care to read it there. But what happened legally was about 20 years ago, an investigator with the Rochester Police Office, Rochester Police Department. failed to include some of his notes in the stuff that got turned in having to do with the investigation of the death of young Miss Streber. The notes in question involved an interview with an individual whose credibility was very, very suspect. But that individual claimed that Timothy Coon had confessed starting the fire to that individual. At any rate, those notes didn't end up in the file. And so as this case over years got handed down and handed down, and then as the Rochester Police Department, you know, decided to go after it again and ultimately developed enough information to secure an indictment against this man, Timothy Coon. And as yesterday, jury selection was to begin, there was a reality of law. The law says that if the government has sufficient information to prosecute you, that the government must prosecute you within a reasonable amount of time. And the deal is that these notes turned up. And they indicated that back in 2004, 2005, that there was probably sufficient information based on those notes and that informant's information, that there was arguably enough information to bring charges against Timothy Coon then. But the Rochester Police Department had not. And so the defense lawyer said, Your Honor.

They had evidence 20 years ago, and under our law, they had a legal obligation to prosecute 20 years ago. The fact that they are prosecuting now 20 years later denies or violates my client's rights to both speedy trial and due process. And so I move that this charge be dismissed. And the deal is, under that circumstance, it's not a shade of gray. It's not a judgment call by the judge. That's the way it has to be. That, in terms of the law, is what transpired. What transpired in terms of character and principle will talk about in just a moment. This is News Radio, Wham 1180. Courage is doing the right thing when you don't know how it's going to work out. Courage is committing yourself to the correct course of action. Thanks for your courage, Charlie. Regardless of the cost associated to a news radio, Wham, 1180. Look, if you can't eat the food, you love. Mitar. Partly cloudy and mostly sunny today. Sounds all right to me at temperature in the upper 50s. A little autumnal, kind of like October, say. It's 53 degrees at 822, and you're listening to News Radio Wham 1180.

The long two-decade quest to bring Timothy Coon to court to face justice was an undying mission for the family of Savannah Streber. Their commitment, television interviews, national network television interviews, Facebook page, anybody with a camera and a microphone come around, they would passionately, lovingly tell the story of that little girl and of her slaying. Their faithfulness to the cause of justice for her, their commitment to their little sister is staggering. impressive sacred. And yesterday they went to court believing that at long last the process of justice for, I say a little sister, one of Savannah Streba's, Streber's sisters was a little bit younger than she. Yesterday was their day. And yesterday they were horribly blindsided. You and I are not court people. I didn't go to college. I didn't go to law school. Maybe you went to college. You probably didn't go to law school. There's stuff that goes on in there that we don't understand. Doesn't mean that it's wrong, bad, indifferent. I just know what the hell is going on in here, right? And yesterday, that family saw to their stunned disbelief this judge dismissed these charges. And the family was outraged, pissed off, heartbroken, angry. One of the sisters yelled out in court, had to be escorted from the courtroom. The family went to the sally port coming out of the back end of the jail, not the sally port, but an entrance near there, from which... Timothy Coon would ultimately be released for the first time in almost two years. And as he was brought up his head in cowardly fashion underneath the coat of his lawyer, the family of Sarah Savannah Streber kept faith with her, shouted at him, and I appreciate and admire what they did. We talked about that legal issue of years ago. An officer forgot to include some of his notes in the permanent file that was left behind.

There are lots of cases, and on each case, there may well be dozens of interviews that are conducted, each with their own set of notes. Keeping everything straight, making sure everything gets in the right box, is an imperfect human task. And, again, about 20 years ago, and I don't say this in any way to throw stones at this particular police investigator, but in... that flurry of activity in the complexity and the distractions of that case and those days and that officer's career, those notes got mislaid. And again, I didn't get to the point, but there is an issue of integrity that is demonstrated in this that I'd like to talk about right after the news, which is up next with Joe Lasky on News Radio Wham 1180. A series of events. The most important events. Make for eventful days. Political violence in this country. More events like this. In any event. A Trump shutdown. Check in. We'll check it out. Following these events every day. Use radio. Wham! 1180. Connected to the things you love. The free iHeart radio app does that with live radio 24-7 news, live sports, and your favorite podcasts. There's no catch and no charge. Radio, you're free. And it goes something like this. The best I can figure, 20 years ago, a cop messed up some paperwork. And this afternoon, a fat little bastard who set a house on fire and killed an eight-year-old girl walked free. She was Savannah Streber, and he is Timothy Coon. And you ought to be pissed. Justice got cheated. And anger at this situation is justified and natural. Anger at the situation is justified and natural. But anger at a person is not. It wasn't the judge. It wasn't the prosecutor. It wasn't the cop back in the day. It was one of those stunning reversals that will sometimes happen in a society of order and laws, in a society where the good people follow the rules even when the bad people don't. More about that in a bit. First, what happened back in the day? It was late February 2004, about midnight on a Saturday, and he threw the glass bottle full of gasoline on the back porch and into the house, up on Yates Street. A rag stuffed in the top, already lit, and it went up in an instant. Savannah was asleep in her bed. So was her little sister, Alex. Dad lived across town, Mama's waiting tables at Alfano's, and Shonda was there babysitting with her boy, Teddy. It was Teddy who saw the flame and alerted his mom. Shonda sent him next door to get help, and she woke up Savannah and Alex, leading them outside. But then, Shonda didn't see Savannah. She frantically searched the outside of the house, and screaming, ran back into the burning building, calling the little girl's name. Shonda was burned in the effort, badly, but was unsuccessful. When the fire department got the house out and they searched its charred rooms, they found the little girl in her mother's bed. She hadn't known mom was at work, and she thought she was inside, still asleep, in danger from the flames. An eight-year-old Savannah Streber went in to get her to save her mommy. That would be Lisa Routier, who was working at Alfano's, an Italian place up by Ridgeway in 390, long since closed. That's who he was trying to get.

They had been seeing one another. She called it off. He went creepy, like the little bastard he is. She had to get a restraining order. And that's when the house was torched. And that's when an innocent little girl lost her life. And that has led to some 20 years of uncertainty and sorrow for her family and a burning, redoubling desire on the part of the Rochester Police Department to get justice. We'll continue in a moment. Time for traffic weather on the tens now on News Radio Wham 1180. From the Clark Peshkin Traffic Center, protect what you have. A will is not enough. Visit Clark Peshkin.com. Sign up now for a free estate planning workshop on October 22nd. Over on Ford Street, getting into Mount Hope Avenue, we're getting reports of a collision. Traffic is slowing down over on 590 north at 490 with a collision being cleared. 390 southbound building over by Brooks Avenue. Traffic is moving a little bit solely here over on 104 by Culver Road with ongoing construction. I'm Debbie Duhame, News Radio, WAM 1180. Every Vision vehicle comes with the unbeatable Vision Care Package. That's a lifetime of value built in that no one else offers. All that plus the best price. It's time to follow your heart to the all-new Vision Automotive. News Radio Wham 1180 Weather. Hey guys, it is Ryan. For years, Chumba's been set in the bar for online social casino fun, and it just keeps getting better. With new games released every week and daily bonuses to collect, the fun never stops. So claim your welcome bonus now at chumbacasino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW. Boy, we're prohibited by law, see terms of conditions, 21 plus. Got plans this summer? A brewery crawl? Another lake trip? The same festival you've been to three times already? Do something different. This August, Virginia International Raceway becomes the ultimate summer destination. Watch Inns's Michelin GT Challenge at VIR. August 21 through 23rd brings some of the fastest sports cars to battle through VIR's legendary corners. Camp with friends, enjoy live music, and experience a weekend you'll actually be talking about afterward. Start planning now at govIR.net. Hey everybody, Lady Luck here, and we're celebrating America's 250th birthday. Now, all summer long, I'm going to be celebrating by playing on SpinQuest.com, which is an American-owned social casino. It obviously features over a thousand slot games and live blackjack, live craps, live bubble craps. Head on over to SpinQuest.com. Get yourself a $30 coin pack for just $10.00. SpendQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit SpenQuest.com for more details. Saturday, July 25th. I know I will be the best walk away in the world. An undefeated phenom. Batman is a rising star. And a frightening force. What a win for Shemil Musayor. Descend on the nation's capital to fight for gold. Thad, the silverback gene. Silverback nation makes some noise. Versus Shemil Musayev. All it's over!

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Notes that should have been part of the file that got handed over when he retired but weren't. Notes about some guy who probably wasn't credible but claimed Coon had confessed to him. Notes that didn't go in the file. And when the notes were found recently, the cops and the prosecutors did the right thing. They told the court. They told the defense. They did the right thing, even though they must have sensed which way it would go. Because if those notes had simply disappeared, if they had gone into somebody's trash can or been burned up in the charcoal grill, we would have had jury selection today, opening arguments tomorrow, and a verdict by Friday, a guilty verdict. It's called a singer issue. The accused has a due process right, beyond the speedy trial right, which basically says he can't be prosecuted after an unreasonable delay. Back in the day, the notes that didn't get turned in arguably had enough evidence to prosecute Timothy Coon. But the failure to prosecute back then is an unjustifiable delay from the perspective of the law. The defense lawyer pointed that out, and the judge had to agree. The judge had to agree. Not because he doesn't care about little girls. Not because he likes to see killers go free. Not because he wants to be vilified by an angry community. Not because he wants to break the hearts of Savannah's family. But because he took an oath. Because he is fair. Because the law is clear. Because the law doesn't see tears or feel pain. Because the law is rigid and inflexible. Because the law is the thing that keeps us free and civilized. Because ignoring the notes would be the same thing as finding a tree and a rope and taking care of this thing without all the niceties. But that's not who we are. And with the dismissal of this case, a high price of integrity was extracted. A bomb blew up in the lives of a family and in the offices of the police department and the district attorney. I can't begin to imagine the anger, pain, and disappointment of the family, or how the cop who took the notes must feel, or how the prosecutor and the detectives will get up tomorrow and go forward unchanged, or how nauseated the day has made the judge. It is a hellstorm, a lose-lose for everybody, except that fat little bastard who killed Savannah Streber. But he will answer to a higher court someday in a place where you don't get off on technicalities. That's my column on this situation. I hope it explains the facts and the law. Back with you in just a moment. On news radio, Wham 1180. In times like these. I just want to say thank you. Past few days have not been easy. In good times. Thank you. In tough times. News Radio, Wham 1180.

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And I think that the parents often are being real jerks to the superintendent and the school board. And the deal is, I don't know that there was anything to fight over in regard to this situation with the student. Some parents thought that, oh, because it's a transgender student and the superintendent's DEI, they're covering it all up and stuff like that. And I don't know if it was covered up, just being honest with you. Last night, a lot of people went to the school board meeting. They got very agitated. And, you know, again, some parents went and they're being jerks. The superintendent and the school board, they were jerks in return. And they got up and they walked out. Here's the reality of all this stuff. is that, you know, you guys have a difference of opinion on the DEI stuff. You know, my view is known. I think DEI is bull crap. But whatever. So there are a lot of other things that aren't DEI. And I don't know that disagreement over one thing needs automatically to lead to like some kind of giant never-ending pissing match on every other thing. When you go to a school board meeting, you should be polite when you speak. But when you go to a school board meeting, you should be able to speak and you should be listened to by the people who are on the school board who, when you get elected, it doesn't mean you're a God almighty. It means you work for the people. And so you should work for the people and maybe get your nose out of the air because you think you're so damn high and mighty. And when you are a superintendent, and you act like the parents are beneath you and there are a bunch of, you know, mouth-breathing cavemen, that's pretty culturally offensive, and you probably shouldn't do that. And so if you go to a school board meeting, you need to be polite. You don't shout. You don't yell things at people. You wait your turn. But if people go to a school board meeting, they ought to have a form in which to be heard to say what they want. And you, school board members and superintendent, should sit your asses there and listen to what they have to say. So on both sides of the ball and Penfield, I think they need to grow up a bit. We're going to get some news from the great Joe Lasky. I'll be back after that with you on News Radio Wham, 1180. is different. For every day. Recent events has made me listen to the radio a lot more. The weather forecast. On air? Can I ride my motorcycle to work today? And on the I heart radio. The talk shows News Radio. Wham! 1180.

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