UPD: Shooting Witnesses Won’t Cooperate, Threaten Female Officer

One person was shot at house party in Utica and officers say several potential witnesses are refusing to cooperate.

Furthermore, those who refused to talk are telling others to keep quiet as well, according to Utica Police.

The incident happened at around 4:30 Saturday morning at 19 Scott Street where a house party was going on, police say.

When police officers arrived they were met by a hostile crowd that was yelling obscenities and threatening to harm a female police officer, according to a release from Utica Police. Once inside the residence police officers located a 24 year old victim, who was shot multiple times. Police officers had to physically clear a path inside the residence so that UFD paramedics would not be impeded by the group of people obstructing and could move the victim out of the house on a gurney to get him to a hospital, the release said.

''Several persons at the scene of this shooting/house party refused to talk to police and were uncooperative. These same persons were also encouraging others to do the same,'' the release said.

The victim's name and condition have not yet been released.