Man shoots youth football coach during attempted robbery at game, New York cops say
A youth football coach is recovering after being shot twice during an attempted robbery at a football game, New York police said.
Officers responded at 11 a.m. Sept. 15 to a “rapidly changing” situation involving reports of a kidnapping, multiple robberies and a shooting, according to a news release from the Buffalo Police Department.
Authorities said 29-year-old Rashaan Mallory of Buffalo forced a man and a woman into his vehicle, taking the woman’s phone “so that she could not call for help.”
Police said Mallory then drove to a youth football game and attempted to rob two more people: a woman and the 31-year-old coach of the Flower City Panthers, a Rochester team playing in Buffalo that day, WHEC and WROC reported.
Mallory tried to steal the man’s chains, then fired several shots, striking him twice, police said.
“An individual that woke up with ill intentions and no predetermined targets exposed our youth to senseless violence and injured someone who served as a role model,” Philbert Daniel, Flower City Panthers president, said in a Facebook post.
In another post, Daniel said the coach was “recovering and in good spirits.”
Mallory crashed his vehicle while trying to flee the scene with the first woman he kidnapped still inside, authorities said.
He was arrested on charges including attempted murder, kidnapping, assault, robbery, unlawful imprisonment and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
McClatchy News was unable to find attorney information for Mallory.
This story was originally published September 16, 2024 at 1:53 PM with the headline "Man shoots youth football coach during attempted robbery at game, New York cops say."
