A man who fired a gun at a woman in Warrensburg was killed on Route 9 early this morning after he opened fire on officers who stopped his car, according to the Warren County Sheriff's Office.
Patrick E. Penders, 59, of Bloody Pond Road got out of his car and started shooting after police disabled the vehicle on Route 9 near Northway Exit 21, investigators said.
Two deputies were hit and deputies and state troopers returned fire, killing Penders.
One deputy was taken to Glens Falls Hospital for treatment of a minor wound to the abdomen. No information was immediately available on whether the other deputy was injured.
Penders had a lengthy criminal record. He had engaged in a shootout with State Police troopers in 1993 after he barricaded himself into a home in Fort Ann and refused to surrender, State Police Major William Sprague said at a news conference today in Queensbury.
Penders spent several years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree reckless endangerment and was on parole until 2000, Sprague said. He apparently had not been arrested in recent years, the major said.
The incident began after police were told that Penders fired a gun at a female acquaintance in Warrensburg.
Warren County Sheriff Bud York laid out this scenario that led up to the shooting of Penders...
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