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Hauppauge-Navy recruit shoots and kills his brother

September 4, 1988 A 22-year-old Navy recruit was arraigned on a murder charge yesterday in the fatal shooting of his older brother.

The Suffolk County police said the accused, Michael Schmid, who was assigned to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station near Chicago, was staying in a friend’s apartment in Smithtown on a visit to Long Island when the shooting occurred Sunday. He was said to have invited his 24-year-old brother, John, who lived in nearby Hauppauge, to stop by.

According to the police, Michael emerged from a bedroom in uniform carrying an AR-15 rifle, which he handed to his brother, who returned it. Then, said a police spokesman, Officer David Bloom, Michael went back into the bedroom and emerged a second time, this time holding a 12-gauge shotgun that discharged as he thrust it toward his brother.

Officer Bloom said Michael fled but was later caught by the police. John Schmid was taken to Central Hospital of western Suffolk, where he was pronounced dead.

Michael was arraigned in First District Court in Hauppauge on a charge of second-degree murder and held without bail, the police said. (AP)

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