Rochester Man Convicted in 2020 Genesee Street Murder
A Monroe County jury convicted 33-year-old Jalen Reed of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in the 2020 fatal shooting of Nathan Bernard in southwest Rochester, New York. Bernard was shot on Genesee Street on April 29, 2020, and died at a hospital. Evidence in the case included shell casings linked to the murder weapon, DNA and surveillance video. Reed was arrested in 2024, more than four years after the shooting, and is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 5, 2027.






