HERKIMER, N.Y.
(AP) -- A man opened fire at a car wash and a barbershop a mile away
Wednesday morning, killing four people and wounding at least two others,
police said, and the suspect was being sought.
State
police told local media outlets a man shot and killed two unidentified
people Wednesday morning at Gaffey's Fast Lube in the village of
Herkimer. Two others were killed at John's Barber Shop in the village of
Mohawk. They said a total of six people had been shot.
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.
Herkimer Village police would only say that there was a shooting and a manhunt.
Herkimer County Community College and local schools were on lockdown.
Amanda
Viscomi, Herkimer's acting clerk-treasurer for the village of 7,700,
told The Associated Press the shooting at Gaffey's happened a few blocks
from village hall. She said she was told the shooter was at large and
that state police, sheriff's deputies and other police were swarming the
area.
"Everybody's on lockdown, all the schools, the college, the village," Viscomi said. "It's very, very scary."
The Utica Observer-Dispatch reported that police were seen removing about half a dozen long guns from an
apartment building in Mohawk where a fire had broken out around 9:30
a.m. The building is around the corner from the barbershop.
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