CANANDAIGUA \u2014 Through a tip from the public, Ontario County Sheriff David Cirencione said investigators were able to find the suspect they believed killed a Farmington man who was found in Room 118 at America\u2019s Best Value Inn in the town of Geneva Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Julius Ware IV, 29, was charged Sunday with second-degree murder after first being identified by authorities as a \u201cperson of interest\u201d in the death of Emmanuel Richelieu, 37, of Farmington.<\/p>\n
However, Cirencione said at a news conference at the sheriff\u2019s office Monday afternoon that his investigators continue to gather more information on the circumstances leading up to Richelieu\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
Richelieu was reported missing by his brother on Friday after he was unable to contact him. Richelieu and his brother had moved to Ontario County within the past two years, Cirencione said.<\/p>\n
Cirencione \u2014 who was flanked at the news conference by District Attorney Jason MacBride \u2014 said that on Wednesday night, someone dropped Richelieu off at America\u2019s Best Value Inn at 473 Routes 5&20; that person is being sought as part of the continuing probe into Richelieu\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
The sheriff said Ware allegedly used a weapon to kill Richelieu, who suffered what investigators described as \u201cmultiple traumatic injuries.\u201d Cirencione would not go into detail as to what weapon or weapons were used. He noted that there \u201cwas a sign of struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Tuesday afternoon, the sheriff\u2019s office announced that the Monroe County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office determined Richelieu suffered \u201cmultiple sharp-force injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cirencione added that they also don\u2019t know what relationship Richelieu or Ware may have had, nor what brought the victim to the hotel. Those are questions investigators continue to probe, he said.<\/p>\n
Ware was arraigned in Ontario County CAP Court Monday morning and taken to the Ontario County Jail without bail, pending further court action in Geneva Town Court. He is scheduled to appear in court Friday at noon for a preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n
MacBride said the case eventually will be heard by a grand jury.<\/p>\n
After getting the missing-person report Friday, it didn\u2019t take deputies long to suspect foul play, said Cirencione, explaining that most missing-person cases are solved within hours and almost never with such endings.<\/p>\n
He credited his deputies and investigators with concluding quickly that something was amiss with the disappearance of Richelieu, especially when his phone was found near the Geneva hotel.<\/p>\n
With a piece of Richelieu\u2019s clothing, a K9 unit was able to track his body to Room 118, where Richelieu was found dead. He was taken to the Monroe County Medical Examiner\u2019s office for an autopsy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cirencione said Room 118 was Ware\u2019s residence. The sheriff\u2019s office said he was placed there by state parole. He was released April 9 after serving an eight-year sentence for armed robbery in Geneva in 2018.<\/p>\n
In response to a question about state parole and the county\u2019s Department of Social Services placing people at hotels such as America\u2019s Best Value Inn and Patty\u2019s Lodge in Hopewell \u2014 the latter was the place where Sam Nordquist died after being physically and sexually assaulted, resulting in seven being charged in that case \u2014 Cirencione noted there is a severe shortage of housing in the county and that Ware \u201cspent a substantial sentence (eight years) for his crime.\u201d<\/p>\n
MacBride said people should not condemn these hotels, adding that most of the people living there are not criminals. And, he added that many of those living at America\u2019s Best Value Inn provided important information in the homicide investigation.<\/p>\n
As for the city residence where police found Ware, there are no charges at this point for those living there, Cirencione said. However, the sheriff said if evidence indicates those harboring him knew he was sought in a homicide, they will be held accountable.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur investigation leads us to believe (Ware) was trying to hide,\u201d Cirencione added.<\/p>\n
The sheriff once again commended the work of all those involved in the search and eventual homicide investigation that he described as non-stop until Ware\u2019s arrest Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody\u2019s exhausted,\u201d he said, adding that the investigation is far from over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CANANDAIGUA \u2014 Through a tip from the public, Ontario County Sheriff David Cirencione said investigators were able to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[1655,3277,10322,10321,13496,65,68,30033,10320,13480,12206,71,3279,3278],"class_list":["post-53165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-crime","tag-crimes","tag-criminal-justice","tag-criminal-law","tag-deviance-sociology","tag-geneva","tag-justice","tag-killing-of-sam-nordquist","tag-law-enforcement","tag-misconduct","tag-murder","tag-public-law","tag-violence","tag-violent-crime"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116444969582904219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}