In the United States, three police officers lost their lives and two others were critically injured in a shooting incident in Pennsylvania’s Codorus Township, according to local media reports.
State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris confirmed the deaths and said the gunman was also killed during the confrontation yesterday.
He declined to share further details about the nature of the investigation. Governor Josh Shapiro said that the officers were responding to a domestic investigation when gunfire erupted. Authorities have not released the identity of the suspect or specified which agencies the slain officers were serving at the time.
US Attorney General Pamela Bondi condemned the violence, calling the attack a scourge on US society and confirmed that federal agents were assisting local authorities in the investigation.
Three police officers have been killed and two critically injured in a Pennsylvania shooting that also led to the death of the gunman.
The slain and injured officers were reportedly following up on a domestic-related investigation that began the previous day.
Speaking at a local hospital where the two officers were in critical but stable condition on Wednesday, Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris confirmed that “the shooter is dead”, but provided scant details as to the deadly events that unfolded in the rural York County shooting.
“I can assure you that all the resources of the Pennsylvania State Police are being brought to bear,” Paris said, adding the site of the shooting was still “very much an active scene”.
Paris said Pennsylvania State Police would convene a “major case team” in partnership with the York County District Attorney’s Office and that he had been in touch with the FBI.
The commissioner was joined by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who had rushed to the scene in North Codorus Township, about 185 kilometres (115 miles) west of Philadelphia, to meet with families of the slain and injured police officers