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Three Dead in City Homicides Over the Weekend
Alex Crichton <!--table for audio buttons--><!--end table for audio buttons-->ROCHESTER, NY (2007-11-19) As Operation Zero Tolerance entered its seventh week of increase police patrols, the RPD is investigating three deaths over the weekend.
All stemmed from verbal confrontations, according to police.
48-year old Hector Merced of Rochester was found beaten to death on Flower City Park on Saturday morning.
Saturday night, 16-year old Christopher Jones died after he sustained a gunshot wound to the chest after an altercation on Pierpont Street.
Police later arrested 17-year old Deshequan L. Nathan in connection with that shooting.
And on Sunday afternoon, a State Trooper pulled over a car that was driving erratically.
Inside, he found two people shot.
One of them, 23 year old Jeffrey Mullin of Rochester, died.
Police are continuing their investigations into these deaths.