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23 Jun 2011 10:20

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U.S.: Pharmacy shooting has all the makings of a recession-era tragedy

  • He was doing it because he lost his job and I was sick. … He did it. He did all of this.
  • Melinda Brady • Explaining what she says may have led her husband, David Laffer, to kill four people in a Long Island pharmacy on Father’s Day. During the shooting, the suspect reportedly tried to steal prescription drugs from the pharmacy he could not afford, in what sounds like an awful recession story in the making. Brady and Laffer, who proposed to his wife at a New York Islanders game a few years ago, were arrested Wednesday after local police received hundreds of tips on the case. source