Ontario County man charged with fatally hitting neighbor

Canandaigua, N.Y. — An Ontario County man is facing charges after his neighbor died three weeks after a fight earlier this year.

On April 14, deputies responded to a home on Arnold Road in Gorham for a medical emergency. Teddy Reed, 55, was found unconscious with a head injury, according to the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office.

He was taken to F. F. Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua, where he was treated in the emergency room and then flown to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, where he died of his injuries on May 5.

Investigators determined that Reed was attempting to break up a fight in a garage at a local gathering between 32-year-old Nicholas Pascasi and another man when Pascasi punched Reed in the head, causing Reed to fall and hit his head on the concrete floor.

Reed’s family told 13WHAM on Friday that he was well known in Gorham and will be greatly missed.

“He was a good, hard-working man who would do anything to help anyone,” said his son Matthew Reed.

“He was a person who could help anyone in any situation,” said Reed’s ex-wife Jessie Shulla. “He would give you the shirt off his back.”

Ontario County Sheriff David Cirencione said it shocked the Gorham community.

“It’s a complicated thing, especially when it affects a community of just a couple thousand people where everyone knows each other,” Cirencione said. “Hopefully it will bring some unity to the family and the community.”

Reed’s family wants justice.

“He had a grandson, finally a connection, doing something with his grandson,” Matthew Reed said. “Now he has suddenly died.”

Pascasi was arraigned Thursday in Ontario County on a sealed indictment charging him with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and assault.

13WHAM reached out to Pascasi by phone, but he declined to comment.

He was taken to the Ontario County Jail and released after posting $2,000 cash bail. He is due back in Ontario District Court at a later date.