MASSACRE: Gunman Kills 14 At Immigration Center

PRESSCONNECTS: At least twelve people are dead after a gunman went on a shooting spree inside the American Civic Center in Binghamton, [New York] according to preliminary information from state police. A federal law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Associated Press the shooter has been found dead in the building. The law enforcement official said the gunman entered the building through the front while firing. He had already blocked the back door with his car. At one point more than 40 hostages were being held in the building at 131 Front Street — 15 in a closet and 26 in the boiler room. At 2:40 p.m., Binghamton Police indicated the situation was over and that a SWAT team was making sure there were no people inside the building. Sharpshooters from the Binghamton SWAT team were poised outside the building during the crisis, and the Endicott police bomb squad was also at the scene.Scanner reports just before 1:30 p.m., indicate police were asking 26 people in the Civic Association to lie on the floor with the hands above their heads. MORE