Typically, according to the county, hotels are used on an emergency basis when shelter space is not available. “They’re in there and they say, “Oh, there’s nothing that we can do, we’re going to try and see if we can get you permanent housing, but they’re not helping us look for houses, they’re not giving us houses, we’re on our own,” she says. Vega also doesn’t know where she will go with her daughter. “I have no idea where we’re going to stay tonight…I spoke to emergency housing and they’re going to put me on a call log and see if they got room at the shelters, but they said right now it’s too full so I don’t know where we’re going to go from here.” “Some of the properties that they gave us here, some of them got violations and all that stuff too, so I’m back at square one,” Miesha says. Monroe County says it will no longer be placing clients in the facility, and it’s in the process of relocating the 12 remaining families to safe and appropriate housing, which it believes it can do by the end of this week.Ī Monroe County DSS worker was on-site Monday to try and help. News10NBC requested copies of health inspection records and data from that location, we’re still waiting to hear back. “But, you can’t work on the rooms while you got families living in that room.”Ī spokesman for Monroe County tells News10NBC the county has had issues with the Motel 6 that it has attempted to address in the past. Specifically, there are ongoing concerns about the sanitary conditions. ![]() “The Department of Health came in and said, “Hey, you gotta clean up this hotel, you gotta make repairs, you gotta yada, yada, yada… so the hotel is doing that,” explains Oscar Brewer who also lives there. “Where the hell are me and my family going to go because I don’t have family that I can stay with,” she says. Her family of five has to be out of the motel today. Miesha and her family moved into the motel earlier this month, she admits the conditions aren’t great but, “It’s a roof over our heads,” she says. I’m in a situation where there’s nothing I can do, and if I go and find a job, where am I going to leave my kid,” she said nearly in tears. “I have nothing else I can do, I have no money, I have no job, I have one kid. “I thought I was going to be able to stay for at least a month because that’s what the social worker has told me that I work with,” she tells News10NBC but she’s now learned she has to be out by Tuesday. Selena Vega has been living at the Motel 6 with her young daughter for the past few weeks. The Monroe County Department of Social Services has been paying for the families to live in emergency housing at the motel along Chili Avenue in Gates. Some of the impacted folks are fleeing domestic violence, others escaped street violence, and some are trying to pull themselves and their children out of poverty. – Families who’ve been calling The Motel 6 in Gates home for the past few weeks or months, are now being told their contracts are not being renewed and they need to get out. Gates Police are still investigating, and News10NBC can tell you that they’ve been reviewing security footage Thursday to try to figure out who’s responsible.ROCHESTER, N.Y. Whoever it was must have been a visitor,” Jackson says. “I don’t think that anybody I know would do that. “We cook, we bar-b-que back there, and everybody is friendly. She says most residents there all know each other. ![]() Whether there was more than one, we’re still working on that,” explains Long.īetty Jackson lives at the motel. “It started as a verbal altercation between two women in the lobby of the hotel, and somehow it progressed to a physical altercation and subsequently some weapons were in play - which ended up being a knife. Long says all three were treated for non-life threatening injuries. “Upon arrival from our officers we located three victims who had stab wounds, and they were treated by EMS and the police and transported to local hospital,” says Gates Police Chief Rob Long. Gates Police were called for the report of a fight and a person stabbed. I thought people were just having fun because they had a little get together right before that.” “Seems like everybody was running around and what not. “I just heard a whole lot of screaming, like people yelling,” says Rich. Tyler Rich lives in Rochester but was spending the night at Motel 6 on Chili Avenue. ![]() ![]() I had no idea they were stabbing people,” says Tyler Rich. Gates Police say it all started when two women got into an argument - which quickly turned into a physical fight. No one has been arrested yet in a triple stabbing inside a Gates motel overnight.
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