Case files in Cold Spring officer's killing reveal suspect's distress over firing, custody

One thing is clear from the thousands of pages of investigative files released Monday about the fatal shooting in 2012 of Cold Spring officer Thomas Decker: No one saw it coming. Not the parents and friends of the suspected killer, Eric J. Thomes, nor the behavioral psychologist who lived with him.

Thomes, 31, hanged himself in a shed after an hourslong standoff as police closed in to arrest him in the ambush-style shotgun slaying of Decker behind the Winners Sports Bar & Grill in Cold Spring two months earlier.

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