Ray Brook, New York - September 4, 2006
About 16 New York state troopers from the Adirondack region have reportedly joined the manhunt in western New York for a cop killer. Hundreds of troopers and local police are looking for a man named Bucky Phillips who shot a state trooper four days ago at the house of his girl friend that the police had staked out. Trooper Joseph Longobardo was shot in the leg last Thursday. Despite doctors amputating the leg Sunday, the trooper died of his injuries.
SWAT teams from upstate communities have joined the search for Phillips, an escapee from the Buffalo jail. 16 officers from Troop B headquartered in Ray Brook have reportedly joined the search, some may be leaving shortly. Police are also checking reports Phillips was seen in Utica. That's about 150 miles from the primary search area in Western New York.
There is a reward of nearly a quarter of a million dollars for Phillips, who swears he will not be taken alive. He has been implicated in three separate shootings of officers and dozens of thefts of firearms.
