2 Killed in Holdup at N.Y. Check Cashing Store
<i> Reuters</i>
NEW YORK —
An off-duty New York City police officer working as a security guard in a check cashing store and the shop’s owner were killed in a holdup Saturday morning, police said.
Officer Sam Davis, 38, and Ira Epstein, the owner of the store near La Guardia Airport, were ambushed as they entered the business to open it, police said.
Epstein died at the scene. The officer was pronounced dead at a hospital an hour after the shooting. An eight-year veteran of the force, Davis is survived by a wife and young daughter.
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