{"id":41980,"date":"2013-02-07T08:15:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T13:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=41980"},"modified":"2013-02-07T08:03:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T13:03:07","slug":"man-arrested-for-murder-in-2012-motel-shooting-of-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=41980","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested for Murder in 2012 Motel Shooting of Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Herkimer, NY \u2013 Feb. 6, 2013) State Police in Herkimer arrested\u00a0Michael Leach, age 59, from Rochester on a sealed indictment handed down today by a Herkimer County Grand Jury.<\/p>\n<p>Leach was arraigned on second-degree Murder and second-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon charges this morning in Herkimer County Court.\u00a0 He was remanded to the Herkimer County Jail on $200,000 cash bail\/bond.<\/p>\n<p>Leach is\u00a0scheduled to be back in court on April 5, 2013.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/leach.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-41981\" alt=\"leach\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/leach-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Old Forge, NY &#8211; July 21, 2012)\u00a0&#8211; On July 21, 2012 at 12:51 a.m., The Town of Webb Police Department responded to the Clark Beach Motel for a 911 call from a subject who stated he shot what he had believed to be an intruder.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation revealed he had mistakenly shot his own son who had returned to the motel room. The deceased subject is\u00a0Matthew S. Leach, age 37 of 53 South Heppler St. Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s father,\u00a0Michael Leach, age 59, of Rochester\u00a0is employed as a police officer in Perry, NY (Wyoming County). His department issued .45 caliber Glock handgun was used in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is continuing in conjunction with Acting Herkimer County District Attorney Jeff Carpenter. Michael Leach has been taken by ambulance to St. Lukes Hospital in Utica where he remains for a medical issue. \u00a0The investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Herkimer, NY \u2013 Feb. 6, 2013) State Police in Herkimer arrested\u00a0Michael Leach, age 59, from Rochester on a sealed indictment handed down today by a Herkimer County Grand Jury. Leach was arraigned on second-degree Murder and second-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon charges this morning in Herkimer County Court.\u00a0 He was remanded to the Herkimer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-aV6","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}