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Workers from the Monroe County Medical Examiner’s office bring gurneys into an apartment building on Chestnut Street in Downtown Rochester on Nov. 11, 2021. In the early morning hours of Nov. 11, RPD responded to the scene for the report of a double shooting inside the apartment building. They discovered the victims, Malakai Smith, 19, and Tywan Harper, 22. This incident pushed Rochester’s yearly homicide count to 70, which surpassed the record set at 69 in 1993 for the most homicides in one year.