Police Arrest Rochester, NY Teen In Killings Of Four People

January 8, 2009 3:06 p.m. EST

Rochester, NY (AHN) - A Rochester, NY teen has been charged with killing four people over the Christmas holidays, including three inside one home.

Police arrested Jaquan Clark, a 17-year-old high school dropout, after finding him as a passenger in a minivan with a fully loaded .357-caliber Magnum under the seat.

Clark's fingerprints matched those left inside the house where three of the victims were found. Donald MacMaster, 62, Jeffrey Szymkowski, 33, and Arielle Griffin, 17, were shot, beaten and stabbed to death on the night of Dec. 26. The victims were found the next day inside the house where MacMaster also operated a jewelry business,

Police also linked the teen to the killing of Alfredo Ocasio, 37, on the sidewalk of another neighborhood, he was slain by a shotgun blast.

Authorities say the killings were not random.