Ambushed NY firemen shot dead; 2 police killed elsewhere

Rickey Stokes

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Date: Dec 24 2012 7:18 PM

 A gunman who spent 17 years in prison for murder ambushed and killed two volunteer firefighters and wounded two others on Monday near Rochester, New York, as they responded to a house fire he deliberately set, police said.

William Spangler, 62, shot and killed himself after a gunfight with a police officer in Webster, a Rochester suburb, Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said.

 

"It was a trap set by Mr. Spangler, who laid in wait and shot first responders," Pickering told a news conference.

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