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Retired New York cop pleads guilty in son’s death

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HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) — A retired upstate New York policeman has pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide in the shooting death of his son.

Michael Leach was accused of intentionally shooting and killing his 38-year-old son in 2012 inside a motel room the two were sharing during a vacation in Old Forge. At the time, Leach said he thought he shot an intruder.

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