Trooper shot in North Country

POTSDAM - A trooper who was shot in the shoulder while investigating a domestic dispute dropped her assailant with a single shot as he ran at her fellow officers, according to Acting State Police Superintendent Preston Felton.

Trooper Amanda Reif, 29, who recently returned from a maternity leave, responded to a 911 call about a domestic dispute around 4:45 p.m. Monday at a house along Route 56 between Potsdam and Massena in northern New York, Felton said. She was alone when she arrived, but other state and local police officers arrived shortly afterward, he said.

According to tentative information from the scene, Felton said, Steven McCumber, 45, fired one or two shots from a long gun, either a rifle or shotgun. Two projectiles were found in Reif's upper left shoulder, but it was unclear if it was one shot that fragmented. Two weapons were recovered from the scene.