SWAT teams seek gunman who killed 4 upstate

HERKIMER -- SWAT teams with an armored vehicle and a track-driven robot with a camera on top moved in on a row of shops where authorities believe a gunman who killed four people and wounded two others may have been hiding yesterday afternoon.

Police positioned in front of Glory Days Food and Spirits in the village of Herkimer were looking for Kurt Myers, suspected of shooting four people in his hometown, nearby Mohawk, and killing two others in Herkimer earlier in the day.

Myles Smith, who lives in one of the apartments above the shops, said he had heard police trying to talk to Myers.

"The snipers on the roof are sitting there," Smith said. "I heard about five gunshots. I keep hearing them trying to talk him out, but I don't think he's coming out."

Police say Myers, 64, opened fire at a car wash and a barbershop Wednesday morning, killing four people and wounding at least two others.

Guns and ammunition were found inside Myers' Mohawk apartment after emergency crews were sent to put out a fire there Wednesday morning.

Soon after, two people were fatally shot and two others wounded at John's Barber Shop, police said.

The second shooting happened about a mile away in Herkimer, where two people were killed at Gaffey's Fast Lube and Car Wash, authorities said.