Police: Gunman killed by off-duty officer after fatally shooting customer in NY phone store
By APThursday, May 27, 2010
Customer, gunman killed in NY phone store
NEW YORK MILLS, N.Y. — Authorities say a gunman killed a customer and wounded an employee at a central New York phone store before an off-duty officer fatally shot him.
Rome Public Safety Commissioner James Masucci says it isn’t clear whether the attack early Thursday at the AT&T store was a robbery. A store employee told the Utica Observer-Dispatch that the gunman was a customer who had been banned from the store about a month ago for being disruptive.
Masucci says the wounded person was in stable condition at a hospital.
The shooting happened in New York Mills, about 40 miles east of Syracuse. The off-duty officer is from the nearby city of Rome.
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