Episode 111: Silvon Simmons

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 38.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In 2016, Silvon Simmons was shot in the back by police officer Joseph Ferrigno. The Rochester Police Department said Silvon fired first, and charged him with attempted aggravated murder of a police officer. “My first instinct, to be honest, was they shot this guy and now there’s a coverup.” - Liz Riley, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County Public Defender’s Office. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It was no cops' fileness the whole night.
0:05.2	It would have been no need for it.
0:07.7	It wasn't speed and it wasn't doing anything criminal.
0:14.4	It just was, it came out to clear blue sky.
0:20.2	On Friday, April 1, 2016, 34-year-old Sylvan Simmons was planning to have a barbecue at his
0:27.8	next door neighbor's house in Rochester, New York.
0:31.7	Just before 9pm, Sylvan and his neighbor went to the store.
0:36.4	His neighbor drove them in a Chevy Impala, with Sylvan in the passenger seat.
0:41.8	Went to the store, came back from the store, everything was good on the way there, on the way
0:46.3	back, and um, shortly after we pulled in the driveway, we went totally wrong.
0:54.2	What happened?
0:56.3	He got out the car, police officer came, like literally just hopped out the car, no sirens,
1:06.2	no nothing.
1:07.2	It was a spotlight he hopped in front of, and that's it.
1:15.4	All you seeing was a gun.
1:17.9	According to Sylvan, the officer did not identify himself or say anything at all.
1:24.2	No sirens, no flashing lights, just one bright spotlight, and a man coming toward him
1:30.0	with a gun.
1:32.3	And you started running?
1:34.1	Absolutely.
1:36.1	Where do you run?
1:37.1	A way, which is the only way to run away was towards the back of my house.
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