A 70-year-old Connecticut man was shot and killed by his brother in hunting cabin in western New York Sunday, according to New York State Police.<\/p>\n
Troopers responded to the cabin just after 10 p.m. for a report of a disturbance in the town of Allen.<\/p>\n
When they arrived, they found two men dead inside.<\/p>\n
They were identified as 70-year-old Mark Thompson, of Canterbury, Connecticut, and 69-year-old David Thomson, of Port Charlotte, Florida.<\/p>\n
According to state police, three brothers were staying in the cabin when they got into a fight. One of the brothers called 911, but during the fight, 65-year-old Scot Thompson, of Englewood, Florida shot and killed his two brothers with a rifle, according to state police.<\/p>\n
Scot Thompson then drove away from the cabin in his brother’s vehicle, police said.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was found in Geneseo, New York and Thompson was taken into custody.<\/p>\n
He is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of first-degree criminal use of a firearm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 70-year-old Connecticut man was shot and killed by his brother in hunting cabin in western New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,28369,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-50810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-canterbury","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}