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4 Dead After Police Say 64-Year-Old Man Opened Fire at Car Wash & Barbershop in Upstate New York

Mar. 13, 2013 1:54pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Police Seeking 64 Year Old Man Suspected of Shooting Up Car Wash & Barbershop in Upstate New York, Killing 4

Police in New York are seeking a 64-year-old man they say went a shooting spree Wednesday morning, killing four people and wounding two. (Image source: Utica Observer-Dispatch)

HERKIMER, N.Y. (TheBlaze/AP) — Police on foot and in a helicopter swarmed two upstate New York villages searching for a 64-year-old man they say opened fire at a car wash and a barbershop a mile apart Wednesday morning, killing four people and wounding at least two others.

Authorities were looking for Kurt Myers, said Joseph Malone, the police chief for Herkimer and Mohawk. A college and schools were locked down and people were being told to stay indoors as Myers remained at large Wednesday afternoon.

Guns and ammunition were found inside Myers’ Mohawk apartment after emergency crews were sent to put out 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.

James Baron, the 29-year-old mayor of Mohawk, said he doesn’t know Myers but knew several of the people who were shot, including “at least” two of the barbershop victims. The mayor described his village as close-knit and friendly, “the kind of place where you’d say, `Oh, it would never happen here.’”

Jason Ackler, 39, told the Utica Observer-Dispatch that his best friend’s father was shot at the barbershop and was in unknown condition.

“I think this guy is trying to prove a point,” Ackler told the newspaper. “It definitely seems like he knew what he was doing.”

The fire at Myers’ building was reported at about 9:30 a.m., followed soon after by reports of shootings in the two villages, Baron said.

Late Wednesday morning, police SWAT teams and a helicopter converged on a jewelry store in Herkimer.

The Observer-Dispatch reported that police were focusing on Freddy’s Jewelers on Main Street, near the car wash and oil change business. The newspaper reported that officials in Mohawk, however, seemed to think the suspect was still on foot somewhere. Other reports suggested he may have been picked up by a taxi.

Herkimer County Community College and local schools were on lockdown. The college sent an automated cellphone alert around 10:40 a.m., telling students and staff that there was an “active shooter” in the area. The message identified the gunman as a man in his 60s, with a white beard and driving a red Jeep Cherokee. A text alert a few minutes later said the campus was on lockdown. Another alert advised people to remain inside buildings until further notice.

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.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the head of the state police were on their way to the area and were expected to brief the media later in the day.

Herkimer is named for the German immigrant family that settled in the western Mohawk Valley in the 1720s. The economically distressed villages are two miles away from Ilion, where a 2-century-old Remington Arms gun plant is a major employer.

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Comments (58)

allwxflyer
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 5:29pm
Well, so much for the liberal Dumocrap’s curbing gun violence.
That idea went down the ole crapper…… And they still aren’t listening!!!!!!!

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:31pm
The Barber cut too much off the top and then he went to the carwash and the change machine would not work and kept his dollar. That did it. Someone has got to pay.

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wilbstal
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:11pm
Ill bet Bloomberg is jerking off into a 64Oz soda right now and Cuomo has a ***** in his Big Mouth

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wilbstal
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:08pm
Cuomo and Bloomberg and Obama love this Gun killings it just falls into theior laps. Now they can rewind, rewond and rewond the story. My question is where were all the good guys with Guns to stop this shooter.????

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- GLOCKU
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:41pm
  It’s New York state, good guys don’t have guns, only bad guys. Too much paperwork and a long wait “if” you ever get approved.
  
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- goferdonuts
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:29pm
  Good Guys cannot have guns in New York only bad guys. Good guys cannot be trusted.
  
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Sargeking
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:02pm
People need to start taking personal responsibility for their safety because as usual the police were a day late and a dollar short. This is exactly what you find in an overly controlled Liberal anti-gun state.

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- pavepaws
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:58pm
  So, gun control is not working in NY?
  
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Sargeking
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:43pm
Once again we hear, “this is something that would never happen here”, when it just did. Brilliant! That’s almost as good as, “the car came out of nowhere”!

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Free_Thought
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:42pm
Where were all the good guys with guns?

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- Sargeking
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:19pm
  They were restricted by New York’s draconian gun laws. Read much?
  
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- Free_Thought
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:27pm
  But i thought that was unconstitutional and the gun owners would rebel and carry them anyway. Thats what i read on every blaze article related to gun laws. No resolve. Quite sad.
  
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- Leerm
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:39pm
  It’s New York, there are no good guys with guns. Blame the Govenor for that.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:42pm
  Just what good guys with guns in New York? Didn’t Cuomo pretty well squash that recently?
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 6:17pm
  When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
  
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nothinghere
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:39pm
sounds as if coumo wants his people to be the ones who will be informing everyone about the shooting,(controling the media for the villagers),frankinstien is on the lose,everyone run,and i’ll save you.

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americanexile
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:34pm
Thank goodness NY just limited us to 7 rounds in a magazine. Lot of good that did.

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lid.smoker
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:14pm
At the barbershop the gunman said, I’d like you to cut one side of my hair longer than the other, leave some hairs standing up in the back, put a few nicks in the side and shave one sideburn off. The barber said, “Hey I can’t cut your hair like that Mr.” and the gunman said, “Why not that’s the way you cut it last time” then took out his gun and fired.

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VoteRightDammit
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:00pm
Well, I’d say we better get going and BAN ALL 64-YEAR OLDs, ALL BARBERSHOPS, AND OF COURSE ALL OF UPSTATE NEW YORK.

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SGT Rock
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:59pm
When did we start refering to American towns as “villages”? Makes it sound like he was in a different country. Villages are where peasants live, towns are where free people of America live. Oh I forget my place, Lord and Sire Obama has taken over the Caliphate now and we must bend to his wishes and whims. BAHAHAHAHAHA.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:44pm
  I see that you must never have been to Upstate, New York. They are called villages up there.
  
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- Glenn_S
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 5:46pm
  Also a whole mess of ‘em in IL. Maybe not a statewide thing but definitely popular in the suburbs of Chicago where I am.
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:58pm
Once again — only the bad guy had a weapon at the scene. that seems to be the common denominator to every one of these events.

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DesdemonasCrew
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:49pm
“Gov. Andrew Cuomo …….on their way to the area” Cuomo will be a little late. He had to stop and clean up the ********* from the front of his pants.

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- DesdemonasCrew
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:01pm
  Really? Ejacul8 is on your list of banned words?
  
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Verceofreason
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:41pm
Upstate NY is NOT NYC.
Very conservative up there.

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- kapnkd
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:46pm
  Sounds like there was one liberal/progressive in the midst.
  
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- wilbstal
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:06pm
  Not conservative enough or we would have Gun carrying folks in that barber shop and car wash. Cuomo is a Communist bastard Gun grabbing Traitor
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:59pm
  VERCEOFREASON/DORA, Yeah, that explains those recently elected Dem-wits from the area. I used to live even further north of there and yeah, they are more conservative than those in the city. But, not really conservative.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:34pm
  If Dems were elected upstate it’s because the Republicans were
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:34pm
  The Republican WERE WORSE THAN TEXANS, I reckon
  
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700P
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:26pm
How’s that gun ban working for ya? Next will be the hysterical cries of it didn’t go far enough when the only thing that will ever stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. This is reality, sorry if it doesn’t fit you utopian worldview.

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:36pm
  There is no gun ban in upstate NY.
  What are you talking about.
  
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jpl57
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:19pm
I live 5 miles from there the old guy has a long gun they got him cornered. Can’t wait to here from that moron Cuomo who made me illegal.

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ozchambers
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:12pm
copycats, copycats keep popping up. Better carry if you can; it’s the only way to stop the killing of innocents.

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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:17pm
  why don’t these loser’s doing something good with their crazy episodes, there are plenty of more valuable targets in which to vent their rage. They could do the nation and their state a service at the same time….
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:29pm
  The authorities are desperate to catch Meyers before he comes-to and realizes what he has done and what government goons hypnotized him.
  
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Serenabit
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:10pm
Gov. Cuomo couldn’t have asked for a better press conference. If I were a conspiracy theorist I would say that he and Bloomberg set this up to further their efforts in disarming Americans. My response to whatever these anti-Constitution politicians say is: When these shootings happen, who do you call to stop them, and what do they use to neutralize the threat? Hmmm … Police with guns!?! Maybe if the responsible citizens had guns we wouldn’t have as many victims. Just a thought.

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:38pm
  Get counseling,
  
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mom4times
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:05pm
my prayers go out to the victims families

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FIREANDBRIMSTONE
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:04pm
Typical old right wing pro gun zealot.
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:07pm
  New York is just filled with those right wing zealots.
  
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- Strider26
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:13pm
  Nealy every mass shooting has been by a liberal democrat. Once again showing who can’t be trusted. And who spouts crap with no truth in it.
  
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- vbell
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:13pm
  Strangely funny how the left jumps all over something like this only to find out later that it was a lefter who was the violent kook.
  
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- Female
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:36pm
  “Typical” and living in an apartment as a right-wing gun zealot…highly unlikely, FB.
  
  NO, no I would be shocked if this were the case of that because true “typical” right-wing pro-gun zealots live back in the deep woods and wait until seized upon by government officials from any department. The guy wasn’t even mentioned to have been wearing our universal “tinhat”.
  And to attack a barber shop of all places, for a “right-wing pro-gun zealot” as his rebellion.
  
  MY THEORY: He’s gay and didn’t like his haircut.
  
  or
  
  The Barber was sleeping with his wife and the jeweler sold the barber all the seduction gifts. Jealousy the oldest reason for violence of men.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:42pm
  Especially Upstate
  Where whacko Carl Palladino thought he could be Governor.
  
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- THX-1138
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:59pm
  There have been far more killers on the Left than on the Right.
  
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SteelJewel
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:01pm
Okay, here comes the liberals, again

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Gonzo
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:01pm
New York has some pretty strict gun laws, no? How’s that working out for you?

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mom4times
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:00pm
wow…blaze…..took long enough to get this story up…..and i’m not sure where the jewerly store is coming from……i don’t recall one being in that area……other outlets have mentioned that too….bizarre

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AvengerK
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:59pm
Hmmm….didn’t Cuomo just pass the toughest gun laws in the country over there? Gun laws he believes should be the model for the entire country? And in turn..aren’t these “toughest gun laws in the country” supposed to prevent this kind of thing from taking place? Anyone? Beuller?
This is only the first of many incidents to come for the newly disarmed New York. You get the government you vote for. Enjoy….

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- mom4times
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:04pm
  and goodie goodie……he’s come up and will be doing a press conference from the trooper barrics soon
  
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- firman
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:33pm
  We will probly hear from Cuomo that the guy used a shotgun so now we need to register shotguns. Or whatever the nutjob used, he will want to ban or register.
  
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