1. A spokeswoman for the sheriff said its probe was in the preliminary stages.

2. The sheriff also said he had limited involvement in the investigation.

3. The sheriff did not say what charges the inmate was facing.

4. The sheriff said at least three shots were fired and the man was pronounced dead on the scene.

5. So the sheriff headed home and talked with his wife about having Bell spend the night.

6. The new sheriff has since taken down the tent city.

7. The sheriff says the deputies shot back, wounding the man who was taken to the hospital.

8. A reaction from an upstate New York sheriff is definitely turning some heads.

9. When they arrived, the sheriff said, officers interviewed him and found him to be polite and lucid.

10. A deputy sheriff was among those killed.

11. Relief for the sheriff may be around the corner.

12. He then shot three women outside the house, killing two and injuring the third, the sheriff said.