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COLEBROOK, N.H. (AP) – Ten years ago Sunday a disgruntled man battling officials over property rights shot and killed two state troopers, a judge and a newspaper editor in northern New Hampshire.

Carl Drega, 67, was later killed in a gun battle in Brunswick, Vt., after wounding four other law enforcement officers.

Drega gunned down Troopers Leslie Lord and Scott Phillips in a supermarket parking lot. He also shot part-time Judge Vickie Bunnell in the back as she ran for her life outside her law office in the News and Sentinel building. He then killed the editor, Dennis Joos, who tried to wrestle the gun away.

Before he went on the rampage, Drega set his house in nearby Columbia on fire.

AP-ES-08-19-07 1130EDT

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