Will Cleveland

@WillCleveland13

A man was stabbed to death near Rochester's East End early Saturday morning.

According to Rochester Police Capt. Michael Callari, police were called to the scene of a stabbing in front of 444 E. Main St. at 12:05 a.m.

The call originally came in as a shooting, but police found an adult male stabbed at least once in the upper body on the sidewalk in front of the Carlson MetroCenter YMCA branch. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Callari said police have "several people we are talking with." He added, "We have several people that we just gathered up in the area. At this point, I don't even know how many. But I can say that it is a significant number of people that we're looking at, and anyone that was in the area, we're just trying to get whatever we can from them."

No other information about the victim was released pending identification and notification of his family. Callari said the stabbing "looks like it did happen on E. Main Street" and not at another location.

He said that the homicide did not involve the YMCA. Police closed down traffic on E. Main Street between Scio and Chestnut streets. A few minutes later, police set up a secondary scene two blocks to the west near the Liberty Pole.

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Police technicians were investigating a brown sport utility vehicle and a woman was taken from that scene by Rural/Metro Medical Service with a police escort. She was alert and upright. It's unclear if these two scenes are connected.

At that point, police closed down traffic on East Main Street between East Avenue and Scio Street.

No suspect is in custody and the investigation is ongoing.

WCLEVELAND@Gannett.com