FOUR SLAIN: A gunman shot four people inside a pharmacy in a New York suburb Sunday morning, killing everyone inside the store in what police said looked like a robbery gone wrong. The massacre happened inside a family-owned pharmacy in a small cluster of medical offices in Medford on Long Island. The shooter fled the pharmacy, and no suspects were in custody.
The shooting happened inside a family-owned pharmacy on Long Island, the Associated Press reports. Police responded after an emergency call as placed by someone in the pharmacy’s parking lot, but not in time to save the four people left dead by the gunman.
No one inside the shop survived, and the shooter fled the pharmacy. There are currently no suspects in custody.
Details such as names and ages of the massacre’s victims have not yet been released. Neither do police know exactly what happened inside the shop and why. According to Suffolk County Police Department Chief of Detectives Dominick Varrone, the motive was likely robbery.
AP said news of the shooting left neighborhood residents shocked.
“This is a family business,” said neighbor Kathy Culhane. “Everyone goes there. It is our neighborhood pharmacy. If you had a problem with prescriptions, he’d go to bat for you.”
The pharmacy’s owner and chief pharmacist, Vindoa Kudchadkar, has not yet commented on the shooting.
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