Binghamton Police Chief: 'He Must Have Been a Coward'

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 4, 2009 12:48 PM CDT

(Newser) – Jiverly Voong, the 41-year-old gunman who took 14 lives including his own at an upstate New York immigrant center, was wearing body armor during the attack, the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin reports. Binghamton’s police chief said the armor indicated Voong may have intended to... Read full story »

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