“My wife comes off the couch, she was white as a sheet,” Edward Patton recalled.

Cheryl Patton had worked for many years at Fisher Bus Service in Hamburg, where she also was a union officer. Pope was a former colleague, Cheryl Patton told police, describing him as a “nemesis” who was on the opposite side of union-related issues at the company and who regularly hurled insults and veiled threats at her.

Cheryl Patton said she couldn’t reveal much about her interactions with Pope at Fisher Bus because some involved confidential work as a union representative.

“I found it very hard to believe that someone I knew would do something like that, especially at his age,” she told The News.

McCarthy came back with another officer a few hours later on Sunday to see if police could catch Pope in the act.

At about 9:50 p.m., with two Hamburg police cars waiting on Versailles, someone drove a burgundy Chrysler Pacifica minivan with the same license plate down the street, threw something out the window…



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