Intruder shot dead in home invasion; Homeowner wounded in gunfire exchange

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – On Sunday at 5:25 a.m. Rochester Police found 22-year-old Zhymar Thacker dead from multiple gunshot wounds at 289 Emerson Street.

Another man, the homeowner, was shot in the torso. He was treated and released from the hospital with injuries that weren’t life-threatening.

Police say early Sunday morning the homeowner was sleeping upstairs in the same room as several other family members because they had just moved into the house the night before.

The family woke up to hearing a first-floor door being kicked in. Several voices were heard downstairs when the adult man left the room armed with a handgun. On the landing, he ran into Thacker, one of the people who broke into the house. Gunshots were exchanged between the two men.

Thacker died and the homeowner is recovering from the gunshot wound.