Three Buffalo Sewer Authority workers were driving back to the office from a job about 11:11 a.m. Thursday.
Southbound on Interstate-190, they had just passed Exit 9 – the Porter Avenue exit – when someone from another vehicle opened fire on them.
All three were hit, including one employee who was killed. Two others, including the driver, were taken to Erie County Medical Center, one seriously wounded and the other with non-life threatening injuries.
Mayor Byron Brown called the triple shooting “another heartbreaking day in the city of Buffalo.”
No arrests had been made Thursday evening in the shocking shooting that shut down the southbound side of the 190 for nearly four hours.
“Currently, we do not have a motive in the shooting,” State Police Maj. Eugene J. Staniszewski said.
Staniszewski and other law enforcement officials said at a Thursday afternoon news conference that they believe the shooting was an “isolated” incident.
“We have no information there is a threat to the community,” he said.
Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn agreed.
“You can see 80,000 people going to the Bills game here on our Thruways,” Flynn said at the news conference held at the State Police barracks on Interstate-90 at the Kensington Expressway, four hours before the Bills kickoff against Tampa Bay in Orchard Park. “At this time, we believe, like the major said, there is no threat to anyone else and this was an isolated incident.”
State police said their investigation shows that the shooter fired from a late-model, dark-colored Jeep Grand Cherokee, also traveling south when the shooting took place.
Brown, who visited with the…
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