poughkeepsie shooting

A shooting has occured on Friday in Poughkeepsie where a NY police officer, a man and a woman, reported to be husband and wife, have all been killed in a rapid turn of events that seemed to be centered around an argument over a child. The child is reported as being fine amidst the fracar.

It began at around 1 p.m. Friday when police received a call about a woman shot, and arrived on the scene to find a woman wounded in a car and a man walking away holding a small child, police said. "When [a police officer] tried to confront the suspect, he tried to run from him," Poughkeepsie Police Chief Ronald Knapp said. The officer was able to overtake the suspect and confront him a second time, and he somehow got the 3-year-old child out of the man's arms and gave the toddler to a bystander as other police arrived.

So a shocking turn of events emerging from the area of poughkeepsie sees 3 people murdered and more details about the event to no doubt be revealed.