New York State Shooting

The police dog who was shot and killed by gunman Kurt Myers in Herkimer, New York was on his mission according to the Utica Observer-Dispatch.

Police say the suspect in the fatal shooting of four men in neighboring upstate New York villages was holed up in a small, cluttered room in an abandoned bar when he died in a shootout with police SWAT teams.

A standoff that went on all night in Herkimer, New York between police and shooting suspect Kurt Myers  has ended in a shootout.

A man neighbors said rarely spoke to them started a fire in his apartment on Wednesday, shot four people dead at a couple of businesses in his hometown and a neighboring village and then exchanged gunfire with police officers who surrounded an abandoned building where he apparently was holed up, authorities said.

Police and sharp have surrounded an abandoned building in Herkimer, New York where suspected shooter Kurt Myers is believed to be holed up.