![]() News10NBC requested copies of health inspection records and data from that location, we’re still waiting to hear back. “But, you can’t work on the rooms while you got families living in that room.”Ī spokesman for Monroe County tells News10NBC the county has had issues with the Motel 6 that it has attempted to address in the past. Specifically, there are ongoing concerns about the sanitary conditions. “The Department of Health came in and said, “Hey, you gotta clean up this hotel, you gotta make repairs, you gotta yada, yada, yada… so the hotel is doing that,” explains Oscar Brewer who also lives there. “Where the hell are me and my family going to go because I don’t have family that I can stay with,” she says. Her family of five has to be out of the motel today. Miesha and her family moved into the motel earlier this month, she admits the conditions aren’t great but, “It’s a roof over our heads,” she says. I’m in a situation where there’s nothing I can do, and if I go and find a job, where am I going to leave my kid,” she said nearly in tears. “I have nothing else I can do, I have no money, I have no job, I have one kid. “I thought I was going to be able to stay for at least a month because that’s what the social worker has told me that I work with,” she tells News10NBC but she’s now learned she has to be out by Tuesday. Selena Vega has been living at the Motel 6 with her young daughter for the past few weeks. ![]() The Monroe County Department of Social Services has been paying for the families to live in emergency housing at the motel along Chili Avenue in Gates. Some of the impacted folks are fleeing domestic violence, others escaped street violence, and some are trying to pull themselves and their children out of poverty. – Families who’ve been calling The Motel 6 in Gates home for the past few weeks or months, are now being told their contracts are not being renewed and they need to get out. The Gervalla's family has asked for their privacy as they continue to grieve.ĭonovan Zuhlke and Jessica Soble are scheduled to be back in Gates Town Court Thursday for a preliminary hearing.ROCHESTER, N.Y. They were quick arrests, bringing a family one step closer to closure. "Motel 6 has already made some changes which were instrumental to the capture of the two suspects by the Gates Police Department,” Assini explained. The safety and well-being of our guests and employees is paramount to Motel 6."Īssini said he's been working with the business to change how they run the motel. "Motel 6 is aware of the incident that occurred at our property located in Gates, NY. With another death, deemed 'suspicious' by police just 18 months ago at Motel 6, corporate sent us statement saying in part: They only knew each other for about ten days. Police said Zuhlke and Soble did not know Gervalla. Zuhlke then stole Gervalla's wallet, and at some point stabbed him in the chest. Court documents read Donovan, 26, was armed and displaying a knife, Soble, 34, aided him. What is clear, according to the felony complaint, is what happened. It's still unclear how Donovan Zuhlke and Jessica Soble targeted Gervalla. Never knew how to say 'no' and we will miss him very much." "My brother was always there to support his family, his friends. "He was the best brother that anyone could've asked for," Feston said. That was apparent Saturday night when Gervalla's brother Feston, addressed the media. So, what has happened has shocked them to their core." "They were so excited about what's to come with their young son. "I talked with the wife and the brother of the victim they are beautiful people," Assini said. Assini said this shouldn’t happen to a family that came here to live the 'American Dream.' Gervalla is a refugee from Kosovo, moving to the states in 1999. "To survive a war, to survive political persecution and have their houses burned and to survive that horror, that hell, to have their brother lost in such a senseless and evil act it's stunning to them," Gates Town Supervisor Mark Assini said. It all started here on Buell Road at this Motel 6 just after 11 Thursday night. Police were called to check on Jehon Gervalla, 39. When they arrived, they found him dead, with a stab wound to his chest. "A life was taken yesterday at 2:30 in the morning," Feston Gervalla said. GATES, N.Y.- It took Gates police just 36 hours to arrest Donovan Zuhlke and Jessica Soble. They remain behind bars without bail, charged with second degree murder and first degree robbery.Īs for the victim's family, they're left wondering what happened to their 'American Dream.'
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