The State Attorney general’s office is investigating the fatal shooting of an Elbridge man by a member of Onondaga County's SWAT team, following a more than five-hour police standoff at an Elbridge mobile home park.
Onondaga County Sheriff Toby Shelley said police were called around 6:00 p.m. Sunday following reports of shots fired at the Rolling Hills Mobile Home Park. That’s where they found 62-year-old Frederick Marty barricaded in his mobile home with a long gun. Shelley said unsuccessful attempts were made to talk to Marty. Then the SWAT team arrived.
"The SWAT team continued attempts to notify Mr. Marty, said Shelley. "At no time did he communicate with us. A decision was made that we would breach a window in his house, to continue that attempt to communicate."
That’s when Shelley said Marty allegedly pointed a gun at a drone and then pointed a long gun at a SWAT team member.
"Mr. Marty pointed a gun at one of our drones and then immediately thereafter pointed his long gun at one of our SWAT members," he said. "A member of our SWAT team in order to protect the SWAT team and himself stopped the threat, which was Mr. Marty. Mr. Marty was deceased at the scene."
Shelley said the only other injury was to a juvenile girl in a nearby car after the initial shots.
"The path of that bullet must have moved something in that car that hit the juvenile," Shelley said. "But the juvenile didn’t have to go to the hospital or anything."
The department will comb through the drone and police cam footage of the incident. At this point authorities have no idea of a motive. The New York Attorney General’s office always takes over an investigation when there is a fatal shooting involving a police officer.
