NEW YORK MILLS, N.Y. — Authorities say a gunman was shot dead by an off-duty police officer after the assailant killed a customer and wounded an employee at a central New York AT&T store.
Rome Public Safety Commissioner James Masucci says it isn’t clear whether the attack early Thursday afternoon was a robbery. A store employee told the Utica Observer-Dispatch that the gunman was a customer who had been banned from the store about a month ago for being disruptive.
Masucci said the wounded person was in stable condition at a hospital. No names were immediately released.
The shooting happened in New York Mills, about 40 miles east of Syracuse. The off-duty officer is from the nearby city of Rome.