Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the deaths of four people and injuries of two others a senseless act that has become too common.

“This is truly an inexplicable situation,” Cuomo said at the news conference in Herkimer held in the late afternoon. “There was no apparent raional motive, to the best of our knowledge at this time, to provoke these attacks.”

Police remain in a standoff with the suspect in the shootings, 64-year-old Kurt Myers, who law enforcement believe has barricaded himself in an abandoned building. The village of Herkimer remains on a virtual lockdown as Cuomo urged residents to stay in doors.

Police say a gunman opened fire at a Mohawk barber shop and a Herkimer car cash earlier this morning.

“I would like to say that this is a situation that we can resolve quickly. Unfortunately, it’s not,” Cuomo said. “It’s going to take a long, long time to come to grips with what has happened and to make sense and find peace.”

Cuomo did not make any mention of the gun control law he strongly pushed for in December and January in the aftermath of shootings in Connecticut and in Webster, outside of Rochester. Cuomo went to the scene, he said, to make sure the state’s resources were being properly deployed.

The governor declined to say whether the firearm used in the shootings was banned under the SAFE Act, saying more information would be needed before making hat determination.

But he did decry gun violence and the mass shootings in recent years.

“It’s just another example that there is no community that is beyond the scope of senseless gun violence and unfortunately, we see this more and more and more,” Cuomo said.

He added, “Herkimer and Mohawk — these are the types of peaceful, quiet communities that one would say, well, this could never happen here. This is one of those things that you just couldn’t imagine.

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