Juvenile female pronounced dead after shooting in 900 block of Madison Street
Joe Zhao | Video Editor
UPDATE: This story was updated at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 1, 2024.
Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety and the Syracuse Police Department responded to reports of gunshots around 901 Madison St. at approximately 8:14 p.m. Friday night, according to an 8:30 p.m. campus-wide public safety alert.
The victim of the shooting, a juvenile female, was pronounced dead, according to a SPD email statement from 10:05 p.m. Friday. SPD identified the victim of the shooting as Alexcia Lynch, a 15-year-old from Syracuse, in a Saturday afternoon statement.
A 15-year-old male suspect turned himself into SPD on Saturday in regard to the shooting, according to a Sunday evening SPD statement. SPD has charged him with murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. He was arraigned and remanded to Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Facility, according to the statement.
SPD’s investigation is ongoing. DPS said in a 9:55 p.m. email Friday that there was no active physical threat to the SU community.
The reported address is down the street from the U Point Syracuse apartment building and other off-campus housing complexes.
Anyone with information related to the incident can contact SPD’s Criminal Investigation Division at (315) 442-5222 or DPS at (315) 443-2224.
Published on August 30, 2024 at 8:58 pm
Contact Stephanie: spwright@syr.edu