This comes as police investigate another pharmacy robbery in a neighboring town.
The star witness in the case against 33-year-old /*David Laffer*/ is expected to be his wife, /*Melinda Brady*/.
At her arraignment Friday, Brady pleaded not guilty to robbery.
But her confession to police says she helped plan the robbery at /*Haven Drugs*/ in /*Medford*/ and drove the getaway car. Laffer's lawyer says Brady should be facing the same murder charges as her husband, but it appears she has made a deal with prosecutors.
Police say Laffer shot 45-year-old pharmacist /*Raymond Ferguson*/ once in the abdomen, then killed 17-year-old store clerk /*Jennifer Mejia*/ before pumping two more shots into Ferguson. When customers /*Bryon Sheffield*/, 71, and /*Jamie Taccetta*/, 33, walked into the store, Laffer allegedly snuck up behind them and shot them in the back of the head.
Meanwhile, police now have another drug-store robbery to solve.
Just a week after the murders in Medford, a thief robbed a CVS pharmacy just minutes away on Horseblock Road in /*Farmingville*/.
Police released a surveillance picture of the suspect late Monday.
Police say the suspect first asked about the availability of narcotic pain killers, then left the store. He returned minutes later with a note demanding the drugs and cash. He got what he wanted and escaped.
"It's very scary, and I wouldn't want my children, when they reach working age, to work in a pharmacy," Farmingville resident Denise Mullins said. "It makes me nervous. I think someday they may be buzzing people into pharmacies the way they buzz people into some jewelry stores."
The suspect is described as a thin white male, about 5-foot-8 and in his early 20s.
In response to the incidents, Senator /*Charles Schumer*/ is calling for tighter controls on powerful pain killers.
