Who is the man behind Lockport standoff

LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) - Who is the man who held police at bay and was later found dead in his home in Niagara County?

Morris Tucker was holed up in his home Wednesday in the Town of Lockport. His 3-year-old daughter had to be rescued from the hostage situation, Tucker's wife was shot in the face and remains in critical condition, and Tucker was later found dead when SWAT team members stormed the home. Now we're learning more about the man at the center of this bizarre tragedy.

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At the Kingsmen Motorcycle Clubhouse on Oliver Street in Tonawanda, the flag outside flies at half staff. News 4 has learned that Tucker, 44, was a member there and may have attended an all night gathering there that lasted until about 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, just a few hours before Tucker shot his wife Leanne, and then turned the gun on himself.

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North Tonawanda Police tell News 4 they rarely have any trouble with the Kingsmen Motorcycle Club. In fact, the only police calls to this house in the past few years were two first aid calls.

Tucker served over six years in prison after admitting to shooting another woman in Lockport. Jenipher Behm, 32, died of a gunshot wound to the head in 1998, but Tucker and a witness insisted it was an accident.

For the 14 years before that, Tucker was considered a prime suspect in the 1984 murder of 13-year-old Michelle Kasperek in Buffalo, but he was cleared of that through DNA testing years ago.

His wife, Leanne Tucker, is still in critical condition at ECMC. With her husband now dead, investigators have no need to build a criminal case against him, but what the sheriff still wants to know is how Tucker, a convicted felon, was able to obtain the 9MM semi-automatic rifle used in the shootings.

"What is a convicted felon doing with a weapon of this sort, a semi-automatic assault rifle? Why does a convicted felon have that? And that's probably my biggest question right now," said Niagara County Sheriff James Voutour.

No convicted felon is allowed to have a gun of any kind, so now the Federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is trying to trace the history of the gun that was used.

It may all come down to the serial number on the gun, if it hasn't been rubbed off.