Gunman who killed 4 in shootout dead after standoff in upstate village

Kurt R. Myers

HERKIMER — 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 just after 8 a.m. by police who had surrounded a block of small businesses in the village of Herkimer in a nearly 19-hour standoff.

Police told the Utica Observer-Dispatch that Myers opened fire as they entered the basement of the former Glory Days building in Herkimer, killing an FBI police dog. Officers then returned fire, killing Myers.

A news conference is planned for later this morning.

"This morning law enforcement officials entered the building and, after being fired upon, shot and killed the suspect, Kurt Myers," Gov. Cuomo said in a statement. "There were no injuries to law enforcement officials, though an FBI police dog was fatally shot."

Yesterday, the 64-year-old loner sauntered into a barbershop in upstate New York, coolly asked if the man cutting hair remembered him and then opened fire with a shotgun, the first shots in a burst of violence that would leave four dead, two critically wounded and people in this small village aching to find out what set the gunman off.

New York state police vowed to wait out Myers, the man suspected of gunning down the victims then holing up in an abandoned building. Police kept vigilant watch there Thursday morning, periodically blaring sirens in an apparent attempt to encourage Myers to surrender, if alive. Booms also were heard.

Police said Thursday they are confident he is still in the building, but don't know if he's dead or alive.

John Seymour, one of the men wounded in the attacks told his sister, Mary Hornett, the barbershop attack came out of nowhere.

AP

Police floodlights shine on the abandoned building on Main St. in Herkimer early this morning.

"He just said that the guys were in the barbershop and this guy comes in and he says, 'Hi John, do you remember me?' and my brother said, 'Yes, Kurt, how are you?' and then he just started shooting," Hornett said.

Hornett said her brother, who was hospitalized in critical condition, was doing well after being shot in the left hand and right hip.

"My brother couldn't think of any reason why he would do such a thing," she said of Myers, a former customer who hadn't been in the shop for a couple of years.

Officers were fired on from the abandoned building on Wednesday afternoon while looking for Myers, state police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico said. At least one officer returned fire.

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