Upstate New York Shooting Update: Suspected Gunman ID’d as Kurt Meyers, Police Say
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March 13, 2013
Multiple gunshots heard in New York village where police seek gunman in killings of 4.
HERKIMER, N.Y. – A man opened fire at a car wash and a barbershop a mile apart Wednesday morning, killing four people and wounding at least two others, and a 64-year-old suspect is being sought, police said.
Authorities are looking for Kurt Meyers, said Joseph Malone, the police chief for Herkimer and Mohawk. Officials say guns and ammunition were found inside his Mohawk apartment after emergency crews were sent to a fire there Wednesday morning.
Soon after, two people were fatally shot and two others wounded at John’s Barber Shop, around the corner from the apartment, police said. The second shooting happened about a mile away in Herkimer, where two people were killed at Gaffey’s Fast Lube and Car Wash, authorities said.
The two villages are about 65 miles east of Syracuse, on opposite sides of the Mohawk River in a region known as the Mohawk Valley.
Officials said Meyers remained at large Wednesday afternoon.
Late Wednesday morning, police SWAT teams and a helicopter converged on a jewelry store in Herkimer.