On the morning of October 22, 2023, 42-year-old Leroy Chisom, a Black man, was found on the second floor of an apartment on State Street in Schenectady with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police responded to reports of gunfire at about 6:49 a.m.

Investigators linked Chisom’s killing to a non-fatal shooting that had occurred at the same State Street address twelve days earlier. Witness statements and city surveillance footage led police to two Schenectady residents, Kevin Dingle, 31, and Jeffrey Bashaw, 54. Officers located both men at a Crane Street apartment; after a standoff they surrendered and were arrested. They were charged with second-degree murder, criminal possession of a weapon, and tampering with physical evidence. Surveillance reportedly showed Dingle and Bashaw visiting the earlier shooting’s victim at a local hospital before and after Chisom was killed.

If anyone has information about Chisom, the State Street shootings, or movements around that Crane Street apartment, please share what you know.