Emergency crews secure the scene of a shooting at Gaffey's Fast Lube in Herkimer, N.Y., on March 13. Two people were fatally shot by a gunman who is believed to have killed two other people in the nearby Mohawk.(Photo: Rocco Laduca, (Utica, N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch, via AP)
HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities in upstate New York say the suspected gunman in a rampage at a car wash and a barbershop that left four people dead and two wounded has been killed by police in a shootout.
They say 64-year-old Kurt Myers was killed Thursday by police who had surrounded a block of small businesses in the village of Herkimer since Wednesday afternoon.
State police say Myers' rampage started with a fire in his apartment in the nearby village of Mohawk on Wednesday morning. They say he then shot two people dead and wounded two others at a barbershop around the corner before killing two more at a Herkimer oil change and car wash business.
Hours later, a flurry of gunfire was heard near where police had narrowed their search.
A college and schools were locked down, and people told to stay inside as police hunted Myers.