Hunter Jumper Trainer Killed by Apparent Sniper

 

ABC News and other news outlets have been reporting the murder of Ross Reisner, a hunter jumper trainer killed at his Long Island, NY home last week.  While sitting on his couch alongside his partner, Kevin Murray, six shots were fired into the home sniper-style.  Murray was grazed on the arm, while Reisner was fatally wounded.

Ross Reisner, according to police, was sitting alongside his longtime partner in their living room Tuesday night around 8:45 p.m. when an apparent sniper, using a high-caliber weapon, fired multiple bullets through the window of the victim’s Setauket home in Suffolk County. Reisner, 50, was transported to Stony Brook University where he was pronounced dead.

Investigators have refused to speculate on a motive for the shooting or any potential suspects.

“This is not a random act,” said Det. Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick, commander of the Suffolk homicide squad. “Given the information we possess, I believe they were fired on by someone who was intentionally firing on them.”

[ABC News]

 

The Daily Mail (UK) also picked up the story, with updated information on a possible suspect.

Reisner’s brother, also told ABC News there was some bad blood between his brother and an old friend with whom he had a dispute.

‘There seemed to be some falling out…it is speculated that he may be the cause or catalyst of this tragic ending of my brother’s life,’ he said.

Meanwhile, Newsday reports that police are using two pieces of evidence in the search for a suspect: a dead bird placed anonymously on the doorstep of Ross Reisner’s home on Upper Sheep Pasture Road four months ago, and a harassment complaint filed in court by he and his partner, Kevin Murray.

They had filed charges against Mr Knight who used lived in the basement of the home for a couple of years and there is now a warrant out for his arrest.

[More from Daily Mail]

 

 

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