Buffalo Deputy Mayor Eugenio Russi was allegedly threatened with a knife on Friday but was unharmed, according to Buffalo police. The alleged incident is believed to have taken place in the area of Court Street on Friday morning.SUNY Erie’s downtown campus was locked down and evacuated following a false gun call on Friday morning, according to Buffalo police. Police first responded to the campus around 10:25 a.m. The campus was locked down out of “an abundance of caution."A Tonawanda man was found guilty Thursday for killing another man with a machete in Buffalo’s Riverside neighborhood in 2023. Adalberto Bermudez, Jr., 48, killed 39-year-old Jose Barreto-Gonzalez with a machete at an Isabelle Street apartment. Niagara Falls police, assisted by the U.S. Marshals Service, arrested 39-year-old Buffalo resident Lamont Kirk in Hamburg on Thursday for the second-degree murder of Jessica Emery.The Vatican has blocked the Diocese of Buffalo’s plan to use parish funds to help pay its $150 million sexual abuse settlement.