WATERLOO, N.Y. (AP) – The gunman who fatally shot two people and wounded a third in an upstate New York village this week was recently released on bail twice after two separate arrests last month, the second for an alleged rape, authorities said Thursday.
State police Capt. Barry Chase said Emerson Tohafjian, 48, of Fayette, remained in custody at a hospital and faces charges in Tuesday’s late-night shooting in Waterloo, in the Finger Lakes region in Seneca County.
Police said a taxi had just dropped the two women off at one of their apartments around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday when they were gunned down. Police have said the man was shot and killed at the same location, but they haven’t released details on the relationship between the three victims.
One of the women survived being shot and called 911, Chase said. She was treated at a hospital and released, he said.
Chase said the victims’ names will be released after autopsies being conducted by the medical examiner’s office in Rochester are completed.