3 officers killed, 2 injured in Pennsylvania shooting : NPR
The first stakeholders work the scene after five officers were killed on Wednesday in North Codorus, Pennsylvania.
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Three police officers were killed and two were injured in a shooting in southern Pennsylvania, authorities announced on Wednesday.
Pennsylvania’s state police commissioner, colonel Christopher Paris, said at a press conference that violence had broken out in the canton of North Codorus in the county of York.
Paris said the police were following an “country” investigation that started on Tuesday. Five officers were killed on Wednesday afternoon, according to Paris. He said that the two injured officers are in a hospital, where they are in a “critical but stable state”.
The shooter was fatally killed by the police and there is no active threat, he added.
Paris said he couldn’t provide additional details. The York District Prosecutor is expected to disclose more information later Wednesday evening, he added.
The governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, who went to the scene, said that it was an “absolutely tragic and devastating day” for the county and the state.
“Lice for the loss of life and three precious souls that served this county,” he said. “And we continue to pray for the complete recovery of those who were dealing with their injuries.”
Shapiro continued: “This kind of violence is not good. We have to do better as a society.”
He also said that US prosecutor Pam Bondi had contacted “total support for the federal government”. Investigators are also in contact with the local FBI.
More than 456,000 people live in the county of York, which is about two hours drive west of Philadelphia and an hour’s drive north of Baltimore, MD.
An “shelter in place” was issued later for schools in the school district of the Spring Grove region, which includes North Codorus.
