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Oct 28, 2009 6:26 pm US/Eastern

DA: Police Gunfire Killed Corrections Officer

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Authorities say an autopsy shows that a Massachusetts correction officer was fatally shot in the legs by police after brandishing a handgun and making threats at a Fitchburg bar.

The Worcester district attorney's office said Wednesday that 49-year-old Michael A. Membrino of Westminster shot at two police officers who came to his home after the bar incident Sunday night. They fired back, hitting him in each leg.

Membrino, who was wearing body armor, died shortly afterward at a Gardner hospital. No one else was at his home at the time of the shooting.

The Massachusetts Department of Correction says Membrino was an officer at the North Central Correctional Institution, a medium security facility in Gardner.

Officials say Membrino had brandished a handgun while making threats at Partners Pub in Fitchburg earlier Sunday.