Update: Cornell emergency notification alerted students early Tuesday morning of a shooting that occurred at 301 Maple Avenue. The location is nearly a mile east of the intersection of Dryden and College, above apartment complexes that house many Cornell employees and graduate students.
Six Cornell and Ithaca Police vehicles were parked outside the apartment complex just past Maplewood Community Center as police patrolled the area. Around fifteen police officers were stationed in various locations throughout the apartment complex guiding passersby through alternative paths around houses and out of the main area.
University and Ithaca police informed Review reporters that advanced paramedics were on the scene by around 3:30. In a second emergency notification, the University told students officials were investigating a shooting that occurred at about 2:15 a.m. Police do not have a description of the suspect at the time.
Final Update: The Ithaca Journal reported this morning that Police found the body of Paul Garcia, 47, shot and dead, in the Maple Ave apartment’s parking lot. He was from New York City, in town visiting friends.
The Sun had originally reported that the apartment complex was “University-owned,” but I think they had it confused with the nearby Maplewood Park Apartments and the article has since been changed on their website (only after other outlets had picked up the Sun’s story, calling it a “Cornell shooting” instead of what it actually was, an “Ithaca shooting”). 301 Maple Ave is home to Maple Hill Apartments, which, according to their website (http://www.abbottassociates.com/maplehil.htm), hosts federally-subsidized housing…and there’s obviously no correlation between that fact and the shooting.
hmm, looks like this headline is wrong, too
No, Maple Park is close to Maplewood.