The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- New York police have released surveillance video footage that shows an auxiliary police officer ducking behind a car before he was fatally shot by a former Marine Corps reservist and journalist, execution-style.
A relative said David Garvin, who killed two volunteer police officers and a bartender in a shooting rampage Wednesday night, had shown a spiraling paranoia in recent years, police said.
Garvin was shot and killed by police regulars after the deadly spree in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, near New York University and close to several famous bars and restaurants.
Garvin had no psychiatric history, but a family member said he had claimed people were “out to get him,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Thursday.
Garvin had been repeatedly kicked out of the restaurant where the shooting began, and may have been angry that a friend was fired from the establishment, police said.
Those possible motives were among several new details to emerge after Garvin, 42, turned the neighborhood’s crowded streets into a shooting gallery, authorities said.