Police in New York state are continuing to investigate a shooting yesterday in which two firefighters died and two others were seriously injured.
The gunman 62-year-old William Spengler is believed to have staged a deliberate ambush after starting a fire in the town of Webster.
Spengler, who had spent 17 years in prison for murder, was found dead at the scene.
His sister is unaccounted for, and police fear she may have died in the fire which engulfed seven houses.
"It was a trap set by Mr Spengler, who laid in wait and shot first responders," Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering told a news conference.
Spengler was convicted of manslaughter in 1981 for beating his 92-year-old grandmother to death with a hammer, according to New York State Department of Corrections records. After prison he spent eight years on parole.
"We don't have an easy reason" for the attack on the firefighters, Mr Pickering said, "but just looking at the history ... obviously this was an individual with a lot of problems."
Spengler opened fire at around 5.45am (10.45am Irish time) after two of the firefighters arrived at the house in a fire truck and two others responded in their own cars, Chief Pickering said.
Mr Pickering appeared to wipe tears from his eyes at an earlier news conference when he identified the dead firefighters as Lieutenant Michael Chiapperini and Tomasz Kaczowka. Mr Chiapperini was also a police lieutenant.
The injured firefighters, one of whom was in critical condition, were identified as Joseph Hofsetter and Theodore Scardino. Off-duty Police Officer John Ritter was hit by gunfire as he drove past the scene.
Mr Pickering said police had found several types of weapons, including a rifle used to shoot the firefighters. As a convicted felon it was illegal for Spengler to own guns.
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