Update: Dec. 31, 9:30 p.m.
A suspect and a law enforcement agent are both dead after an attempted armed robbery at in Seaford Saturday afternoon.
According to police, around 2 p.m., a white male in his 40s entered the pharmacy with a gun and attempted to rob the store. Det. Lt. Kevin Smith said that the suspect left the store with an indeterminate amount of cash and Oxycontin when he was confronted by three law enforcement officers; two off-duty and one retired.
Shooting ensued and one of the officers was struck by gunfire and taken to the Nassau University Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries, police said.
The suspect was then shot and killed by another one of the officers at the scene, Smith said.
The deceased officer was an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
A witness from Seaford told Patch that she pulled up to the front of the pharmacy with her 13-year-old son shortly after the shooting and saw two bodies on the ground -- one of which was being attended to by paramedics. The witness also said that she saw another man handing his gun to officers at the scene.
The name of the suspect and officer have not yet been released.
This is a breaking news story, Patch will update the story with more details when they are made available.
Jaime Sumersille contributed to this report.
"Franken Harpo... your fears of others you well documented... if you have a consumption control lust over others, I see you as the threat..." You boldly pontificate and project my supposed fear of others and then immediately and perhaps naively reveal the fear you sense is actually in you soul that you must live with every day as you proclaim "I SEE YOU AS THE THREAT". I would find it hard to come up with a more "fearful" confession than that. But then again, hopefully you haven't finished posting.
"You will not be happy unless others live by your rules?" Then proclaims the rules he wants others to live by: ".. I want to see an end of fear... that means you either learn or leave" Now tell us about hypocritical behavior...thank you.
"...anyone want to talk solutions or only transgressive punishment?" This after transgressively handing out verbal punishment to every contributor on this forum...maybe he should practice what he preaches, eh? Hey cupcake...pump out some more transgressive punishment..you are a real beauty.
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That dirtbag David Laffer changed the way anyone would react in this situation cop or not. Anyone with a firearm would have lit this perp up. Much the same way any one (including myself) would stomp the snot out of anyone trying to take control of an aircraft. Right or wrong, that's the world we live in now. I think that SA Capano's family has the right take on this that the perp Mr.McGoey is soley to blame for the outcome here.