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HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) - Investigators scouring cellphone records of a man who fatally shot four people in two upstate New York villages found no calls from family or friends in the seven months before the killings, but show many calls from creditors.

Police are still trying to determine why 64-year-old Kurt Myers opened fire last month in a barber shop in Mohawk and a car care business in neighboring Herkimer. Two others were wounded in the March 13 shootings.

The Observer-Dispatch of Utica reports ( http://bit.ly/ZllEuE) that most of the 150 to 200 phone calls Myers received on his TracFone since September were from creditors seeking to collect on more than $21,000 in credit card debt. One call came an hour before the rampage.

Myers died in a police shootout the next day.


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    wrote...
    hmmmm
    how are those strict gun laws workin' for ya?!
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    Steve wrote...
    Those strict guns laws worked about as well
    as the soda size ban.
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    Linebacker wrote...
    What does
    the location of Remington Arms plant have to do with this story?
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    dood34 wrote...
    Linebacker...
    They are reporting that just in case the suspect runs into the gun factory, and he then takes up multiple arms against the police. I bet the idiots in NY ban people from running into a gun factory during a police chase. Oh..btw..HOW ARE THOSE MAGAZINE AND WEAPONS BAN WORKING FOR YA NY?!?!?
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    yrreta wrote...
    Next up, a ban on how many
    bullets you can purchase at one time. I'm sure they'll look for something reasonable, say like 5 rounds per week...yeah that's the ticket.
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