October 1, 2025
At the press conference with the State Police in Canandaigua, Steuben County District Attorney Brooks Baker announced the following:
A Burmese immigrant living in Rochester, disappeared in May 2011. His remains were found by D.O.T. workers, inside a culvert, off of Route 367 in the Steuben County Town of Dansville, in December 2021. The skeleton was identified as “Doe Soe”. The D.A. says Doe Soe drove both a red 2000 Chevy Lumina and a red 1999 Ford F250, as well as a black 2006 Chevy Impala. Soe would frequent the Alex 140 Bar and Grille and the Tilt nightclub, and the Wegmans Next Door Bar And Grill in Rochester, which was where he worked. Doe Soe was a prominent member of the LBGTQ community in Rochester. Baker says the investigation shows that Doe Soe was not accidentally hit by a car and that the case is being treated as a homicide. There are leads, but suspects are not being named at this time. Anyone who knows anything about this case, or anything at all about Doe Soe, no matter how small the info is, please call the tipline at 607 225-5400.
