Rochester Man Sentenced to 25 to Life in Fatal Beating

A Rochester sex offender will serve 25 years to life in prison for a homicide last September in the Edgerton neighborhood.

55-year-old Ronald Lagasse was found guilty in July of second-degree murder.

Prosecutors say Lagasse bludgeoned 65-year-old Mary Simzer to death in an alley on Pearce Street, off North Plymouth Avenue.

Lagasse was previously convicted of rape in 1997.


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