Arrest made in overnight mass shooting

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - (RELEASE) One Arrest made in Quadruple Homicide Case.

Buffalo Police Homicide Squad detectives have arrested Keith Johnson, 25, of Minnesota Avenue is charged with four counts of murder in the second degree.

Additional charges are pending.

Johnson was being booked late Saturday afternoon for his role in the murders of two men and two women, as well as injuring four other men in the vicinity of 268 Main Street around 2:30 Saturday morning.

In the incident, four people have died, all having been shot along Main Street between Seneca and Swan Streets.
Four others were wounded - one critically.

The dead include two men, 26 and 30 years old and two women who were 27 and 32 years old.

Two men, 27 and 30 years old, were listed in stable condition and another 27 year old male was shot in the elbow, and listed in good condition.

A 30 year old male remains in critical condition.

There was a party honoring a married couple, at the City Grill, 268 Main Street.

The 30 year old husband is one of the dead at the scene.

Investigators are looking into reports that there was at least one incident inside the restaurant, and that one individual may have been escorted out of the establishment.

Management made a decision to close for the night and a large number of people were leaving.

At around 2:30AM someone began firing a gun from the east side of Main Street, from a parking lot, and the shots struck eight people - four of them fatally.

Three victims were dead at the scene and a fourth was rushed to the Buffalo General Hospital, but did not survive.

The other victims were treated at Erie County Medical Center.

The crime scene includes the pedestrian mall area of Main Street, and property damage included several glass windows on one of the subway stops, as well as a nearby business.

The Niagara Frontier Transit Police have assisted Central District officers and Homicide Squad detectives in the initial calls to the scene and follow-up investigation.

There was no interruption to the metro rail service, since the subways were not operating at the time of the shooting spree.