Jamestown police are investigating another homicide.

Around 8:40 p.m. Tuesday, officers responded to the area of Newland and Forest avenues for a reported shooting incident. Officers found Doug Howie, a 68-year-old resident, at the scene suffering from a bullet wound.

The Jamestown Fire Department and Alstar Ambulance Service also responded and treated the victim of his wounds.

He was transported to UPMC Chautauqua and subsequently flown to Hamot Medical Center in Erie, Pa., where Howie succumbed to his wounds.

The homicide is the seventh in Chautauqua County since the beginning of the year.

The Jamestown Police Department is asking that anyone with information to please call the Jamestown Command

Desk at 716-483-7537 or the confidential tip line at 716-483-7722 (TIPS).

The shooting is the fourth in less than a month in Jamestown. The victim of the first August incident was at a downtown establishment and had a confrontation with another individual after leaving. The victim was transported to an out of town hospital with life threatening injuries.

Then, later that day, Jamestown officers on patrol responded to the 800 block of Prendergast Avenue for a report of a victim of a gunshot with minor injuries. The person was treated and released with non-life threatening injuries. The investigation is continuing at this time.

Around 1 a.m. the following day, city police officers responded to Victoria Avenue for another report of a gunshot complaint in which one person was taken to an out-of-town hospital for treatment of life-threatening injuries. As a result of the third investigation, Juan A. Tufino Jr., 33, of Jamestown was found to be in possession of a loaded pistol. He was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and taken to the Jamestown City Jail until he could be arraigned.

The August incidents, coupled with Wednesday night’s shooting, are the latest in what has been a year of shootings.

According to Gun Involved Violence Elimination program statistics submitted by the Jamestown Police Department to the state, there have been five more through August 2024 than there were through August 2023, seven more shooting victims and two more fatal shootings. Jamestown’s seven shootings through the end of August are the most of any of the cities involved in the GIVE program as are the city’s number of shooting victims (9) and individuals killed by a firearm (3).

Gun crimes are decreasing throughout the rest of the state, in particular other cities involved in the state’s GIVE program. Between 2021 and 2023, gun homicides in our Upstate GIVE communities went down 37%, according to Hochul during a news conference in June. The homicide rate outside New York City is at its lowest point since 1970. Year to date, shootings resulting in injury have decreased 28% across our districts compared with the same period in 2023.

So even our historic lows are getting lower,” Hochul said. “Gun related homicides are down 20% just from last year. Again, building on the previous decline. So, this is extraordinary”