Body cam shows Daniel Legler being fatally shot when he fired toward NY State Trooper Dominick Caito.
New York State Police at a Tuesday morning news conference in Ontario County identified the trooper and the man he fatally shot over the weekend following a brief pursuit that ended in Gates.
Daniel R. Legler, 35, of Chili, was fatally shot Sunday night when he allegedly fired toward Trooper Dominick Caito, a 9-year New York State Police veteran, said Samuel Spezio, captain of Troop E’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
The fatal encounter followed a pursuit that started on Interstate 490, near Innovative Field, in Rochester when Caito attempted to stop a westbound car with an expired state inspection. Legler did not comply and drove west on I-490 to Route 531 in Gates, Spezio said. The trooper followed.
About three minutes after the initial attempted traffic stop, Legler exited the highway at Rochester Tech Park on Elmgrove Road, struck a guard rail on a sharp curve of the ramp, jumped a curb, struck an earth embankment and drove into a field where he got out of the car, Spezio said.
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