4 Killed in Shooting Spree in Upstate New York (VIDEO)
The killings took place at a car wash and a barber shop in Herkimer County.
Police in Upstate New York’s Herkimer County are looking for a suspect wanted for killing four people and wounding two others in a shooting spree in the villages of Mohawk and Herkimer.
The villages are about 65 miles east of Syracuse, on opposite sides of the Mohawk River in a region known as the Mohawk Valley.
The Herkimer Telegram reported that firefighters were battling a blaze at a building in Mohawk where the suspect apparently lived. He was described as a slender white male, age 50 to 60, sporting a white beard and wearing a flannel shirt.
He is believed to have abandoned his maroon vehicle, possibly a Jeep, that was spotted at the scene of the two shootings.
The suspect was believed to be armed with a long gun used in the killings, the Telegram reported.
The Observer-Dispatch (uticaod.com) reported that SWAT teams and a police helicopter converged on a jewelry store on Main Street in Herkimer where the suspect may have taken refuge, but later reported that the gunman may have fled on foot.
The suspect apparently set fire to his residential building in Mohawk, then went to John’s Barber Shop shop in the same village where he killed two people and wounded two.
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