Saturday, February 19, 2011

Poughkeepsie shooting


Poughkeepsie shooting,A veteran police officer died of his injuries Friday after a shootout in Poughkeepsie, New York, according to the Poughkeepsie Police Department. The name of the deceased officer, a veteran of 18 years, the department has not been released pending notification of relatives.The gunman shot a woman to death in a car hours earlier, then fatally shot himself ball minutes after the fight with the police, including an officer who had taken a 3-man years and handed the child to a passerby, police said.A Poughkeepsie police died Friday after a series of shootings near the Poughkeepsie train station.

Authorities say a police officer has died hours after being shot in the head during a firefight that killed one woman and the gunman near a railway station in the Hudson Valley of New York . Three other policemen were hurt.Knapp said he believes that men and women who died were husband and wife and not of Poughkeepsie, a town of about 30,000 people about 70 miles south of Albany in New York Hudson Valley. Their names have not been released.Another police were treated for minor injuries at the Medical Center at Vassar, Poughkeepsie Police Chief Ronald Knapp said at a press conference in the afternoon is the worst Friday.Today day of our city has seen perhaps in our history, "said Mayor Mike Tkazyik.

The gunman shot a woman to death in a car hours earlier, then killed himself minutes after the fight with the police, including an officer who had taken a 3-man years and handed the child to a passerby, police said said.Knapp believes that man and woman are husband and wife died and not of Poughkeepsie, a town of about 30,000 people about 70 miles south of Albany New York Hudson Valley. Their names have not been released.The Police are continuing their investigation into the massacre on Friday, which also left two other people. Police said a man apparently killed his wife while she was in a car in a parking lot downtown.
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