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Bill Nojay

Case from Rochester, NY dated Sep 09, 2016

Victim Details

Bill Nojay

Male

White / Caucasian

Rochester

NY

2016-09-09

59

Bill

Nojay

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In the quiet solitude of a Rochester cemetery, the life of New York State Assemblyman Bill Nojay, a 59-year-old male, came to a tragic end. On the morning of September 9, 2016, police were dispatched to Riverside Cemetery on a call to check on his welfare. What they encountered upon arrival was a scene that would ripple through the political landscape of New York. The responding officer witnessed Nojay take his own life with a firearm near his family's burial plot.

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  • USA TODAY: N.Y. lawmaker fatally shoots himself days before primary
  • Assemblyman Bill Nojay dies by suicide near family graves
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