Overview
- The 18-year-old SUNY Oneonta freshman and accomplished dancer was fatally shot in her ex-boyfriend’s Nesconset home, according to Suffolk County police.
- Funeral and wake services drew large crowds wearing pink, and American Ballet Studio plans to dedicate this year’s Nutcracker performances in her honor.
- The Youth Peace & Justice Foundation will help fund an annual scholarship at the Bayport studio and plant a memorial tree in Finger Lakes National Forest.
- Police say the accused shooter survived a self-inflicted gunshot and remains hospitalized, with arraignment to follow on an expected second-degree murder charge.
- A fundraiser for Finn’s family reached about $85,000, and reporting on the suspect’s identity varies as police have not released a name because he was a minor.