A house burns in Webster, N.Y., on Christmas Eve morning, when police say a 62-year-old convicted killer went on a rampage that left three dead, three wounded and seven homes razed. /Jamie Germano photo via Reuters
A report today from The Buffalo News shows chilling parallels between the Newtown school shooting and the carnage unleashed in Webster, N.Y., on Christmas Eve. Just as in Newtown, a Bushmaster .223 caliber rifle is the likely weapon used in Webster to shoot four firefighters and an off-duty police officer. Just as in Newtown, a deranged man in Webster got his hands on a deadly arsenal and unleashed a planned attack on his community.
According to Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering, William Spengler, who had served 17 years in prison for killing his grandmother with a hammer and was living in a Webster house with his sister, typed a three-page letter before killing two firefighters, wounding three other first responders, and burning down seven homes. The body of Spengler's sister was found in the ruins, but it's not known yet whether she was shot to death or died in the inferno.
Pickering called the Webster shooting a "clear ambush on first responders" and read one line from Spengler's letter: "I still have to get ready to see how much of the neighborhood I can burn down, and do what I like doing best, killing people."
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