It sounds like a scene from an old Western: One teenager shoots another, then himself, in the Cooperstown police station.
Cooperstown Police Chief Diana T. Nicols said it all began when a car crashed into the iron gates just outside the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
From there, a 16 year-old male armed with a small-caliber rifle got out of the crashed vehicle and chased another 16 year-old teen from the corner of Main and Fair Street to the front of the Main Street Police Station. Police Chief Nicols said that the shooter had come out of the SUV that crashed into the gates.
The Daily Star has more:
In an incident involving two Cooperstown High School sophomores, Wesley Lippitt was shot and wounded in an arm this afternoon in the Cooperstown Police Station. The alleged shooter -- Anthony Pacherille – then shot himself in the chin outside the station, according to Cooperstown Police Chief Diana Nicols.
Both Lippitt and Pacherille are at Bassett Medical Center and are expected to recover. We'll post more details as they surface.
