ENGLEWOOD, Fla. \u2014 An Englewood man is facing murder charges in New York after state police said he shot and killed his two brothers during an argument at a rural hunting cabin on Sunday.<\/p>\n
New York State Police charged 65-year-old Scot Thompson with two counts of second-degree murder after investigators say he opened fire on his brothers, 69-year-old David Thompson of Port Charlotte and 63-year-old Steven Thompson of New York.<\/p>\n
Watch Fox 4’s Alex Orenczuk speak with Thompson’s neighbors:<\/p>\n
‘Shock to all of us’: Englewood man charged in Upstate New York double homicide<\/p>\n
The cabin is in the town of Allen, a community of roughly 500 people in Allegany County.<\/p>\n
Troopers said the shooting happened during an argument among the brothers. Afterward, investigators said Scot took off in one of their vehicles before he was found and arrested a short distance away.<\/p>\n
In Englewood, where Scot Thompson lived in a quiet mobile-home park, neighbors told Fox 4 they were stunned to learn of the accusations.<\/p>\n
One neighbor, Alice Griggs, said the brothers were known to be extremely close.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was always doing things with his brother, always,” Griggs told Fox 4. “They\u2019d go fishing and carrying on\u2026 This is just a shock to all of us.”<\/p>\n
One victim, David Thompson, lived in Port Charlotte with his wife and worked at the Charlotte Care Center homeless shelter. <\/p>\n
New York State Police say the double-homicide investigation remains active. Scot Thompson is being held in Allegany County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENGLEWOOD, Fla. \u2014 An Englewood man is facing murder charges in New York after state police said he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29063,29064,29065,303,28774,29066,5998,4685,1027,3956,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-52449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-allen-new-york","tag-charlotte-care-center","tag-charlotte-county","tag-crime","tag-double-homicide","tag-englewood-florida","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-homicide","tag-instagram","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52449","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=52449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}