New York police officer fatally shoots a woman and wounds another before killing herself - NBC News

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An upstate New York constabulary serviceman fatally changeable a 27-year-old pistillate earlier turning the weapon connected herself and taking her ain beingness connected Monday, according to the Rochester Police Department.

Tiffani Gatson, a 29-year-old serviceman with the Greece Police Department, changeable 2 women astatine a Rochester location earlier turning the weapon connected herself. The municipality of Greece is simply a suburb of Rochester, successful occidental New York connected Lake Ontario.

Gatson, who had been an serviceman successful Greece since September 2018, was disconnected work astatine the clip of the shooting, according to the town's constabulary department.

Police responded to what they're calling "a home related altercation" astatine astir 7:20 p.m., Rochester constabulary said successful a statement.

Responding officers recovered each 3 women extracurricular the location with gunshot wounds, according to the New York State Attorney General’s Office, which is conducting an investigation into the shooting as required by law erstwhile a transgression is committed by an officer.

Angely Solis, 27, was pronounced dormant connected the scene.

Another victim, a pistillate successful her 30s who suffered non-life threatening injuries from aggregate gunshots to her precocious body, was sent to an country hospital. She is not being named astatine this time.

Gatson was recovered astatine the country with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She was taken to an country infirmary wherever she was pronounced dormant soon after, according to police.

Officers recovered a Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun astatine the scene, which they determined is not Gatson's work weapon, according to the lawyer general's office.

The 2 victims are related, according to NBC affiliate WHEC.

Police would not clarify the narration betwixt the victims and Gatson.

Gatson was the archetypal African American pistillate to articulation the Greece Police Department successful 2019, WHEC reports.

“On behalf of the Town of Greece Police Department, I would similar to explicit our corporate sorrow and grief with respect to past night’s events successful the City of Rochester,” said Greece Police Chief Michael Wood successful a statement.

“Unfortunately, we person seen events of this quality hap each excessively often and conflict to find answers successful the aftermath. The effects are far-reaching, from those who person mislaid loved ones to others passim instrumentality enforcement organizations erstwhile a constabulary serviceman commits specified a horrible act, to our full community."

Mirna Alsharif is simply a breaking quality newsman for NBC News.

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