2 Workers, 2 Patrons Shot To Death At NY Pharmacy

Police arrest Long Island man in pharmacy killings

Police have arrested Long Island resident David Laffer in the deaths of four people shot inside a pharmacy on Sunday morning.

Laffer, 33, is accused of shooting two employees at Haven Drugs in Medford as well as two customers before leaving with prescription drugs, according to a statement released Wednesday by Suffolk County Police.

He has been charged with first degree murder and resisting arrest, police said.
Laffer's wife, Melinda Brady, 29, was also arrested. She was charged with third degree robbery and obstructing governmental administration, authorities said.

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He was easy enough to catch. All they did was cross-reference people in that area that had gotten vicodin scripts, and owned a .45. The idiot actually got his scripts filled at the same pharmacy he robbed.

Articles that I read have said he stole either 10,000 or 11,000 hydrocodone pills, as well as promethezine, and tussinex. I am assuming all the good stuff was locked up. I agree that is a lot of hydrocodone for one place to carry.
 
The wife of a man accused of shooting four people to death at a local pharmacy during a robbery for painkillers says he did it for her and she was sorry "he did all of this."

Melinda Brady and her husband, David Laffer, were arrested Wednesday in connection with the Father's Day massacre at the Haven Drugs in Medford.

"He was doing it because he lost his job and I was sick" said Brady as she was led from Suffolk police headquarters in Yaphank early Thursday morning.

"I'm sorry he did all of this," Brady, 29, said as she addressed questions from reporters.

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wow... at least he's off the streets and can't try it again. What a tragedy =(

Agreed with what someone said above though, there will be more pharmacists packing. 'Just give the robber whatever they want and you will be fine' doesn't fly anymore.
 
slimvictor said:
The wife of a man accused of shooting four people to death at a local pharmacy during a robbery for painkillers says he did it for her and she was sorry "he did all of this."

Melinda Brady and her husband, David Laffer, were arrested Wednesday in connection with the Father's Day massacre at the Haven Drugs in Medford.

"He was doing it because he lost his job and I was sick" said Brady as she was led from Suffolk police headquarters in Yaphank early Thursday morning.

"I'm sorry he did all of this," Brady, 29, said as she addressed questions from reporters.

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Awwww. How sweet. I understand his motive in robbing the pharmacy, but why in fuck's sake did he kill four people?! Is she saying he killed all of those people for her? Was she in severe pain because of these people? No. They had gone nothing wrong, except being in the wrong place at the wrong time. That idiot didn't kill them accidentally. He executed each one of them in cold blood.

I'm glad they caught him and I hope that he lives every waking moment of the rest of his miserable life seeing the faces of the four people he killed. I know their families want justice. Here's the mugshot of the piece of shit:

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Looks like someone already got a little street justice on his face.

There had been some conversation first, Suffolk County prosecutors said on Thursday, apparently the only words that the suspect, David Laffer, would utter inside Haven Drugs that Sunday.

Then, without warning, Mr. Laffer pulled out a handgun and shot the pharmacist, Raymond Ferguson, the prosecutors said. It was unclear if Mr. Ferguson recognized Mr. Laffer, who had been a customer before. Even if he had known him, Mr. Laffer was wearing a disguise: sunglasses, a cap, a fake beard.

Mr. Laffer then turned his gun on Jennifer Mejia, 17, a high school student who worked at the drugstore in Medford, on Long Island, the prosecutor, John Collins, said at Mr. Laffer’s arraignment.

After killing the two employees, Mr. Laffer walked through the store, before returning to where Mr. Ferguson lay, and shooting him twice more.

When two customers — Jaime Taccetta, 33, and Bryon Sheffield, 71 — entered the store, Mr. Laffer ambushed them, “shooting them in the back of the head,” Mr. Collins said.

On Thursday, law enforcement officials offered the first public accounts of the quadruple homicide, using terms like coldblooded and execution-style. Mr. Laffer, 33, was charged with first-degree murder and resisting arrest; his wife, Melinda Brady, 29, was charged with third-degree robbery and obstructing governmental administration.

Officials said that Ms. Brady was cooperating with detectives, which seemed apparent early Thursday, as she was led away from police headquarters.

“He did it, he did all of this,” Ms. Brady said of her husband as she was escorted into a police vehicle.
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Ms. Abbate told the judge that Mr. Laffer had two black eyes as well as injuries to his nose and forehead. She did not offer an account of how the injuries occurred, and asked that her client be granted bail.

But Judge Bean ordered Mr. Laffer held without bail — drawing an immediate reaction from relatives of one of the victims, Jaime Taccetta.

“You are a coward for what you did to our family,” yelled James Fegel, an uncle of Ms. Taccetta’s. Those words were immediately echoed by Ms. Taccetta’s brother, Daniel, who shouted, “A coward.”

Police officers had forcibly entered the couple’s house on Pitchpine Place in Medford shortly after 10 a.m. on Wednesday, coming out escorting Mr. Laffer and Ms. Brady. Both had resisted arrest; Mr. Dormer said Mr. Laffer “was extremely violent” in resisting the officers and his wife had interfered with the police.

Mr. Dormer added that both suspects “were obviously under the influence of narcotics.”

Ms. Brady, who authorities said had driven Mr. Laffer to Haven Drugs on Sunday, was also to be arraigned, but she had already been taken to an area hospital for unspecified reasons.
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Can drugs take away your conscious & "soul" to where you're so cold blooded to take someones life so easily w/o being threatened by them? Obviously so, its a shame but I highly doubt most of us in here would ever stoop to this guys level.
 
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Can drugs take away your conscious & "soul" to where you're so cold blooded to take someones life so easily w/o being threatened by them? Obviously so, its a shame but I highly doubt most most of us in here would never stoop to this guys level.
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yes, but not opiates

@thread: this guy was probably a psychopath; the drugs are beside the point
 
^ I agree. He was a military veteran that just lost his job, and he was applying for social assistance. He probably felt that the whole "system" had turned its back on him, and he was going to get what he wanted no matter what.

His friends said that he had a stockpile of weapons at his home, but they didn't think much of it since he had been in the military.

I do think that he was getting them for his wife. When he lost his job, he lost their health insurance. Any real addict is going to grab stronger stuff than vicodin, unless all of the good stuff was locked away.
 
Ms. Brady, who authorities said had driven Mr. Laffer to Haven Drugs on Sunday, was also to be arraigned, but she had already been taken to an area hospital for unspecified reasons.
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'unspecified' = the cops probably smashed her face in just as bad as the shooters.
 
Tommyboy said:
^ I agree. He was a military veteran that just lost his job, and he was applying for social assistance. He probably felt that the whole "system" had turned its back on him, and he was going to get what he wanted no matter what.
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Wonder if this will ever open debates about how we care for our veterans, mental health benefits in particular here. We program people to become automatic killers, send em home with huge rates of PTSD, soaring suicide rates... After breaking these peoples brains we should have a better system of helping them recover, and keep them / help them get on their feet back in society.

I think the military aspect might be kinda snubbed (covered up / ignored). Even if they trained him to be able to clear a room like that, they wouldn't want to imply that those skills aren't left on the battle field along with all the trauma.
 
Ph0r.W3-R-m4ny said:
Wonder if this will ever open debates about how we care for our veterans, mental health benefits in particular here. We program people to become automatic killers, send em home with huge rates of PTSD, soaring suicide rates... After breaking these peoples brains we should have a better system of helping them recover, and keep them / help them get on their feet back in society.

I think the military aspect might be kinda snubbed (covered up / ignored). Even if they trained him to be able to clear a room like that, they wouldn't want to imply that those skills aren't left on the battle field along with all the trauma.
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Agree 100%

Our government/military trains these guys to be the best at what they do, killing the enemy but after they've been over there killing & doing what they were told to do, they come back here w/o a war to fight except for the war inside their heads & its a bitter one that never has winners.

We live in a sad state of affairs when we cant take care of our own military personnel.
 
^so true.

Ph0r.W3-R-m4ny said:
Wonder if this will ever open debates about how we care for our veterans, mental health benefits in particular here. We program people to become automatic killers, send em home with huge rates of PTSD, soaring suicide rates... After breaking these peoples brains we should have a better system of helping them recover, and keep them / help them get on their feet back in society.

I think the military aspect might be kinda snubbed (covered up / ignored). Even if they trained him to be able to clear a room like that, they wouldn't want to imply that those skills aren't left on the battle field along with all the trauma.
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It'll be a cold day in hell if some government worker actually admits this, despite it probably explaining this supposedly nonsensical act.
 
What kind of person could shoot a 71 year-old person for no reason?

This, This is the type of circumstance when capitol punishment is acceptable. When the individual is clearly guilty and there is nothing good that can come of the incident other than the death of the person that started it.
 
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