NY pharmacy shooting suspect pleads not guilty
by Frank Eltman
Associated Press
June 23, 2011 12:20 PM | 391 views | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend | print
MEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) _ A 33-year-old New Yorker has pleaded not guilty to first degree murder in the shooting deaths of four people at a Long Island pharmacy during a robbery for painkillers.

David Laffer was ordered held without bail Thursday. Suffolk County prosecutors say they recovered Laffer’s fingerprints at the scene of the shootings Sunday. They also found the gun they say was used in the slayings at his home.

Laffer was arrested Wednesday after an intense manhunt for the suspect seen in surveillance footage wearing a baseball cap, glasses and sporting a bushy fake beard inside Haven Drugs in Medford.

His wife Melinda Brady has also been charged with robbery in the case, and told reporters her husband “did all of this” for her. She was hospitalized and it’s not clear when she would be arraigned.

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