SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A Syracuse police officer's personal shotgun, suspected to be stolen in a burglary at his house while he was on vacation, turned up in Roesler Park near the scene of a shooting.

According to police reports, the Mossberg Model 500 12-guage pump-action shotgun was found within a week after Officer Jimmie Johnson reported the April 2013 burglary. The reports indicate no arrest was made in connection with the shotgun.

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Witnesses told police a short man named "Murder" wearing a distinctive sweatshirt fired the gun at an apartment door near Roesler Park, after he and another man got into an argument over a woman. No one was injured in the shooting, but the door was damaged by the shotgun slug, police reports said.

"Murder" told police he was not involved in a shooting, but had been approached by two men selling a stolen shotgun they called a "special police model," in the park days before. He told police he knew of another man who might have bought the gun.

That man said his mother called him after the shooting and said she saw someone ditch the gun in her storage closet. He said he disposed of the gun in the park.

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