People v. Hightower

—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Supreme Court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. While responding to a report of shots fired at about 5:30 a.m. in the Reed Street vicinity, a high crime area, two Buffalo police officers observed defendant and another male running north on Reed Street. Defendant handed an object to a third male also headed north on Reed Street, who put the object in his left pocket. The report of shots fired coupled with the observations of the officers provided them with a founded suspicion that criminal activity was afoot sufficient to approach and…