Shooting Suspect’s Body Identified After Fire
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MARGARETVILLE — The body of shooting suspect Travis Trim was pulled from the charred wreckage of a Catskill-area farmhouse where a trooper was slain as investigators looked into why a police assault on the house ended in a fierce blaze.
Forensic investigators used fingerprints yesterday to identify the badly burned body as that of Trim, a 23-year-old from northern New York suspected of shooting two troopers at the rural home Wednesday morning, state police Major Kevin Molinari said.
Police had been searching for Trim since the Tuesday afternoon shooting of another trooper, who escaped serious injury because the bullet struck his body armor. Trim was apparently holed up in the farmhouse on the northwestern edge of the Catskills on Wednesday when he opened fire on approaching troopers, killing one and wounding another.
