New York, Jun 20 (AP) A gunman fatally shot four persons inside a pharmacy in a New York suburb today morning, killing everyone inside the store in what police said looked like a robbery gone wrong.
The massacre happened at about 10:20 am (local time) inside a family-owned pharmacy in a small cluster of medical offices in Medford, a middle-class town on Long Island about 60 miles (100 kilometers) east of New York City.
Police rushed to the scene after getting an emergency call from someone in the pharmacy's parking lot. When they arrived, they found two employees and two customers dead, said Suffolk County Police Department Chief of Detectives, Dominick Varrone. No one inside the shop survived.
The pharmacy, Haven Drugs, had opened for business at 10 am, and Varrone said investigators' initial belief was that a single gunman was responsible for the bloodbath, and that the motive was robbery.