Christmas Eve Massacre Shooter Ambushes and kills two Firefighters responding to Fire New york

	Christmas Eve Massacre Shooter Ambushes and kills two Firefighters responding to Fire New york Watch the Video: The gunman who ambushed four volunteer firefighters, killing two, in upstate New York had spent 17 years in prison for beating his grandmother to death with a hammer in 1980, police said. William Spengler opened fire on the volunteers as they responded to a blaze just before 6 am ET in a small cluster of homes along Lake Ontario in Webster, NY, police said, rocking this close-knit community. The 62-year-old convicted felon had apparently set a trap, luring in first responders and then firing on them from atop an earthen berm. "It does appear that it was a trap that was set," said Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering, his voice breaking at times. "People who get up in the middle of the night to fight fires, they don't expect to get shot and killed." Advertise | AdChoices Pickering lost a colleague in the incident: Police Lieutenant Michael Chiapperini, who was a volunteer firefighter. The other firefighter killed by Spengler was Tomasz Kaczowka. Despite being shot, one of the injured firefighters was able to flee from scene under his own power. But the others remained pinned down on the narrow strip of land between Lake Ontario and Irondequoit Bay until a SWAT team arrived. Webster Police Lt. Michael Chiapperini. As police closed in, Spengler took his own life with a gunshot wound to the head, Pickering said. He was convicted of manslaughter in 1981 after the death of his grandmother, Rose Spengler, and was paroled in 1998. Spengler's 67-year-old sister <b>...</b>	From: SLIM BOOGIE Views: 0 0 ratings
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