Blandina Street victim identified

Blandina Street victim identified

Medical event that led to the crash.

Utica police have investigators are looking into the possibility there was a medical event that ernoon.

Chante miller was 26 years old.

Newschannel 2's joleen ferris reports on the local epidemic that killed her.

At age 26, chante miller, of utica, has become the latest in a series of young, local women to lose their lives to domestic violence, shot dead here, at 1002 blandina street, monday afternoon..

To dianne stancato, at the ywca mv, chante is much more than a statistic.

She's part of the reason dianne comes to work every day 3:59 "i'm heartbroken, and then i'm mad an angry" because it's so senseless; here's this 26-year-old beautiful young woman, and she's just gone"...just like that, she's gone" police found chante miller dead from a gunshot wound on the 2nd floor of 1002 blandina street monday afternoon, the apparent victim m of a murder/attempted suicide.

Not far from her, a man with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

He's in critical condition at a local hospital.

Stand up the domestic violence hotline here at the ywca mohawk valley rang an average of 9 times a day last year.

Officials here say the only place in new york state with a domestic violence rate higher than oneida county, is new york city.

5:59 "we've talked about it a lot with our politicians and our community partners, and we really can't put o our finger on why, t we have constant, i mean every year, sadly, our numbers grow" they're mystified as to the why.

But they know how to end domestic violence.

And the solution involves both men and women 5:20 "that's the way to end violence against women, long term, is that we have to engage men in the conversation, they're part of the change.

But women, too, knep st women, long term, is that we have to engage men in the cock on our door 24 y and we can take you in and keep you safe.

But you have to make the call" police plan to release more information wednesday on the relationship between the miller and the man they believe shot her.

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