Perspectives in Herkimer could change as the effects of Wednesday's events permeate the community.
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The shootings rattled Herkimer and neighboring Mohawk, villages about 170 miles northwest of New York City.
Myers' sister lives with her family in Barneveld, just a short drive from Mohawk and Herkimer.
Herkimer County Community College lifted a lockdown during the afternoon, and schools near the scene released students.
State police and FBI tactical teams entered the first floor of a building in Herkimer around 8 a.m.
Herkimer village police reported no homicides between 2007 and 2012, according to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Michael Virtanen in Herkimer, Chris Carola in Albany and David B.
The shootings were reported Wednesday morning in the neighboring communities of Herkimer and Mohawk, CNN affiliate WKTV reported.
Herkimer County has been the epicenter of the backlash to the gun laws.
WSJ: In Mohawk Shootings, Town Feels Anger at Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Police snipers waited on rooftops on a block of small businesses in Herkimer as they waited for Myers to emerge.
Herkimer Mayor Mark Ainsworth said Mr. Cuomo, with whom he met privately on Wednesday, didn't raise the issue of gun control.
WSJ: In Mohawk Shootings, Town Feels Anger at Gov. Andrew Cuomo
After Wednesday morning's shootings, nearby schools and Herkimer County Community College were placed on lockdown, the regional TV station WKTV reports.
Police were positioned in front of a block of small businesses topped with apartments in the village of Herkimer on Wednesday evening.
Herkimer is a village of 7, 700 named for the German immigrant family that settled in the western Mohawk Valley in the 1720s.
Oneida-Herkimer, a case on the same constitutional issue, the Court determined laws that don't discriminate against private industry should also not be considered in violation of interstate commerce laws.
Michele Mlinar, bartender at Cangee's Bar and Grille in Herkimer, said Myers used to come at night on weekends and listen to karaoke but stopped showing up last summer.
Michele Mlinar, a bartender at Cangee's Bar and Grille in Herkimer, said Myers frequently went in and had a bottle or two of Coors Light and left without speaking to anyone.
New York state police said two people had been shot dead and two others wounded at a barber shop in Mohawk, before two others were gunned down at a car wash in Herkimer.
The shootings shattered the peace and rattled the nerves of Mohawk and Herkimer, two small villages about 170 miles northwest of New York City, separated from each other by the Mohawk River and the New York State Thruway.
On Wednesday, Kurt Myers, a 64-year-old resident, allegedly used a shotgun to fire on random people and police in three separate incidents across the villages of Mohawk and Herkimer, before police killed him in a shootout Thursday morning, authorities said.
WSJ: In Mohawk Shootings, Town Feels Anger at Gov. Andrew Cuomo
The incidents prompted officials to put schools on lockdown in Herkimer and Mohawk, as well in as the nearby municipalities of Ilion, Frankfort, Little Falls, Richfield Springs, Dolgeville, West Winfield, Bridgewater and Newport, said Mark Vivacqua, the Herkimer school superintendent.
The shootings shattered the peace and rattled the nerves of Mohawk and Herkimer, two small villages about 170 miles northwest of New York City, separated from each other by the Mohawk River, the New York State Thruway and just a mile.
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