Mass shooting, suspect at large in upstate New York

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HERKIMER (WKOW) -- a manhunt is underway in upstate New York, where police are searching for a suspect in shootings at two different businesses that left four people dead and at least two wounded.

State police say two unidentified people were shot and killed Wednesday morning at a car wash in the village of Herkimer and two others were killed in a barber shop in the village of Mohawk, about 65 miles east of Syracuse.

They say a total of six people were shot.

Herkimer County Community College and other schools in that area are on lockdown.

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