Two Shot At Xerox Credit Union

Two men were shot, one fatally, Tuesday morning in an apparent robbery of the credit union at a sprawling Xerox complex near Rochester, N.Y., authorities said.

Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said one victim died and the second was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital with a shoulder injury. He said it appeared to be a robbery that went bad.

No arrests had been made yet, and authorities were not sure if the shooter was still on the Xerox campus or had escaped. Xerox canceled the second shift at the plant.

Authorities did not say whether the two people who were shot were credit union customers or employees.

Pickering told the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle the man carried a sawed-off long gun and a handgun. He was wearing an afro-type wig, a bullet-proof vest that may have had the initials "FBI" on it with a blue T-shirt underneath, and he may have been wearing a law enforcement badge.

Paul Moskal, a spokesman for the FBI in Buffalo, said he believed no legitimate FBI employees were involved in the shootout, though the agency is one of several responding to the incident.

Police set up a number of roadblocks around the complex, said Debbie Licata, a records clerk for the Webster police. Police used dogs to search nearby woods.

The 1,000-acre Xerox campus 12 miles east of Rochester, a center for engineering and manufacturing, employed 8,000 people as of 2001.