Rochester Police responded to an apartment on North Union Street near Weld Street around 11:50 a.m. on Saturday, July 3 for a report of person found dead. Marc Stekloff, age 77, was "clearly deceased" inside  his apartment in the Marketview Heights.

Police believe Stekloff was approached by his killer on July 1st and somehow invited into his residence. 

The Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office determined Stekloff had been stabbed more than three dozen times.

The murderer then stole Stekloff’s vehicle, later found abandoned in a parking lot on Hudson Avenue on Sunday, July 4th.

Local surveillance video secured by police at the crime scenes showed a man walking away from the area.  Clear pictures were sent to area police departments by the Monroe County Analysis Center, requesting help in identifying the subject.

Wayne County. Investigators recognized the man as Jonathan Shearin, age 33, of Dundee, arrested by the Sheriff’s Office on Friday, July 2nd, one day after the Stekloff murder.

In the Wayne County cases Deputies responded to a reported disturbance at a residence on Hydesville Road in the Town of Arcadia on July 3rd. They discovered three elderly victims on scene who were assaulted and required medical attention. The unknown suspect, later identified as Shearin, had fled the scene before responding Deputies arrived.

The officer then forced himself  into the home was discovered that Shearin was in the residence along with the two occupants whom the  he had also assaulted.

"I am convinced that we saved people’s lives that day and stopped an assault in progress" said Wayne County Sheriff Rob Milby. "We stopped an assault in progress’, he added.

The six victims from the three separate residences in the Wayne County incidents were transported to area hospitals for medical treatment due to injuries sustained in the attacks.

In the Wayne County incidents, Shearin was charged with 5 counts of Burglary in the First Degree, 1 count of Robbery in the Second Degree, 9 counts of Assault in the Second Degree, 1 count of Assault in the Third Degree, and 2 counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree. Shearin was  taken to the Wayne County Jail  and held on No Bail and was formal indicted on the Wayne County charges on August 11th.

Shearon was going nowhere after being remanded to the Wayne County Jail and armed with the information and identification, Rochester City Police began building their case.

On Monday (9/14), following an unsealed Monroe County Grand Jury indictment for the Stekloff murder, Rochester Police picked up Shearin at the Wayne County Jail and he was taken to the Monroe County for arraignment on the Rochester charge.

 Shearin is currently being held on No Bail at the Monroe County Jail and scheduled to appear in Rochester Court on October 9th.