Two brave volunteer firefighters were shot dead in West Webster and two injured when a lone gunman started a blaze as a trap to lure the men and opened fire on Christmas Eve. In addition a single police officer from the nearby Greene police force in New York state was hit by shrapnel during the shooting which comes just ten days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre rocked the nation. The firefighters were called out to the fire on the shores of Lake Ontario at around 5.35 a.m. and the shooter immediately opened fire using an assault rifle - before a police SWAT team arrived and soon after the gunman died from a self inflicted gunshot wound.

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