Updated: 2:43 PM EDT April 16, 2021
ROCHESTER, N.Y. The New York State Police are investigating a police-involved shooting in the Rochester.
According to a release put out by the agency, members of the U.S. Marshal Regional Fugitive Task Force attempted to execute a parole absconder warrant on a person at 107 Fairbanks Street just after 11 a.m. Friday.
Investigators say the suspect was able to make his way to the residence next door and tried to hide in the basement.
They say when police tried to take the suspect into custody, he refused to follow the officer s instructions and claim he allegedly made an aggressive movement toward officers with a butcher knife.
Buggs sat in custody for three years at Rikers following his February 2018 second-degree murder arrest in the death of Ernest Brownlee, 55, who was shot in front of a Throop Avenue deli in Bed-Stuy. Court records indicated he was next due for a hearing in June on the murder charges.
At the time of his accidentally release, Department of Correction online inmate records also showed Buggs status as Released. He had been held in the Otis Bantum facility.
It appeared Buggs was released on an unrelated contempt of court finding, with Rikers staff not realizing he should still be locked up for his alleged role in the murder case.
PHOTO COURTESY SPECTRUM NEWS Scene of shooting by police of alleged parole absconder on Fairbanks St. near Hudson Ave. in Rochester on Friday, April 16, 2021. A New York State Trooper on Friday shot and injured a man wanted for violating parole in Rochester. Members of the U.S. Marshal Regional Fugitive Task Force were trying to follow up on a warrant issued for someone who was at 107 Fairbanks Street near Hudson Avenue in Rochester, at about 11:15 a.m. Authorities say the man made his way into an adjoining residence at 105 Fairbanks and tried to hide in the basement.
State Police say that prior to getting into that house at 105 Fairbanks, officers tried to Taser the suspect, but were unsuccessful. They say the man got into the house and held a female resident against her will, while holding a butcher knife against her back.