Senators Schumer and Gillibrand held a press conference in Binghamton yesterday to pledge the support of any federal law enforcement resources that could aid local police in their investigation of Friday's shooting massacre. Gillibrand said, "This is a tragedy we're all living together and we're all reflecting on it in our own way." After the pair toured the classroom where the massacre took place, Schumer remarked, "It was so frightening to see that small little room with no place to run, no place to hide." Today the Binghamton chief of police said that gunman Jiverly Wong, who was "an accomplished marksman," fired the 98 shots Friday including the final one at himself, "in just over a minute." And while being interviewed on Today show yesterday, Wong's sister said that she didn't believe the foreboding letter sent to a TV news station was by her brother, claiming his handwriting was more like "chicken scratch" and his vocabulary too limited to have written such a letter.
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