BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Over the weekend, a 19-year-old SUNY Buffalo student was killed in an off-campus shooting.

On Thursday, Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin was on campus discussing how to prevent similar tragedies in the future.

"We've been planning this before, that but it's because we've just lost too many young people to gun violence, we just have to work together," Benjamin said.

The lieutenant governor has held similar closed press conversations this week with community members in Brooklyn and Rochester.

"There are definitely nuances, but a number of the issues are similar and that's why we have a view that we are going to collaborate with our local municipalities and our funding is going to be targeted in a way that the community needs and our community leaders are saying this is what's going to work on the ground," Benjamin said.

He said the goal of the tour is to identify and address root causes that lead to gun violence including education, housing, mental health and workforce development.

"How do we ensure that no one is in the position where we have to deal with law enforcement? That's what we should be striving for and so how are we going to invest our resources into that, and so that's what we're doing today," Benjamin said.

At the same time Thursday, Spectrum News 1 confirmed a New York Post report that Gov. Kathy Hochul will pitch changes to the state's bail reform law that could give judges more discretion to detain criminal defenders, specifically repeat offenders as well as making more gun crimes eligible for bail.

"We did not have a conversation about that just so your clear," Benjamin said. "What we focused on this morning was not about accountability mechanisms and not about law enforcement. As you can see, noone from law enforcement is standing with us."

Benjamin said there is a law enforcement component to curbing gun violence but it's not something he wanted to speak about publicly Thursday.

"We don't want to get into those conversations. The governor is dealing with the Legislature. I'm working with her dealing with the Legislature. There's an entire budget. As she has said, public safety will be in it and that's what we're looking into. We want a full budget for everyone."