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ITHACA, N.Y. – The Latest on the fatal shooting of a UPS driver outside a Wal-Mart store in upstate New York (all times local):
12:45 p.m.
UPS says a company truck driver who was shot and killed outside a Wal-Mart store in upstate New York was a seasonal employee who had stopped to get something to eat.
Susan Rosenberg, a spokeswoman for Atlanta-based package delivery company, says the driver was about four weeks into his second stint as a seasonal driver when he was slain early Thursday morning in the parking lot of a 24-hour superstore in Ithaca.
Rosenberg says the driver was taking a break on his overnight shift to get something to eat at the store when he was shot. She says he was driving a tractor-trailer that hauls packages between processing hubs, not one of the company’s familiar brown delivery trucks.
Police say the man who shot the 52-year-old driver surrendered later Thursday morning.
The driver’s name hasn’t been released.
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11:32 a.m.
Police say a man suspected of killing a UPS driver in a New York Wal-Mart parking lot is in custody after a standoff.
Officials say the fatal shooting occurred at around 12:50 a.m. Thursday outside an Ithaca store. Police say the victim was a 52-year-old man.
While investigating the shooting, police spotted a car that matched the description of a vehicle seen fleeing. Officers attempted to pull the car over, but the driver didn’t stop until reaching a driveway at a home in Dryden.
Authorities say the suspect exited the vehicle, fired a shot at police and ran into the house, believed to be his own.
Police say the suspect surrendered around 9:45 a.m. after a negotiator spoke with him through a robot a SWAT team inserted into the home.
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