Three police officers have been killed and two injured in a shooting in the southern part of Pennsylvania, state police say.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe grieve for the loss of life of three precious souls who served this county, served this commonwealth, served this country,\u201d Gov. Josh Shapiro said.<\/p>\n
An investigation is occurring in the area of North Codorus Township, about 185km west of Philadelphia, not far from the Maryland line, authorities said.<\/p>\n
York Hospital said it was treating two people in serious condition related to a police incident in northern York County. The hospital said enhanced security protocols were in place.<\/p>\n
Attorney General Pamela Bondi called the violence against police \u201ca scourge on our society.” She said federal agents were on scene to support local officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease send prayers to the officers and those involved in the shooting in York County,\u201d Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Austin Davis said in a social media post.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said he was also heading to the scene. Sunday said on social media he urged \u201call residents to follow the instructions of local law enforcement\u201d and he is \u201cpraying for all involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
A local school district issued a shelter-in-place order, though it said schools and students were not involved in the shooting. The order was lifted later in the afternoon. The district said in a statement that authorities \u201cadvised us to hold students and staff in our buildings as a precaution while several area roads are closed.\u201d<\/p>\n
The medical response unfolded on a rural road in south-central Pennsylvania that winds through an agricultural area with a barn and farm fields.<\/p>\n
The Consulate of Mexico in Philadelphia said in a social media post that they were \u201cmonitoring the incident\u201d in Pennsylvania and advised Mexican residents nearby to follow official instructions. A spokesperson for the Mexican consulate in Philadelphia said the post was “only a precautionary alert for our community”.<\/p>\n
Police have not provided any details about who was involved in the shooting. Officers were keeping people well back from the scene in the area\u2019s rolling farmland, with some 30 police vehicles blocking off roads bordered by a barn, a goat farm and soybean and corn fields.<\/p>\n
\u201cPennsylvania State Police, Northern Regional Police and numerous emergency responders are at the scene. The York County Commissioners are monitoring the situation closely and praying for all those involved,” the county said in a statement.<\/p>\n
An officer in the area was\u00a0killed\u00a0in February, when a man armed with a pistol and zip ties entered a hospital\u2019s intensive care unit and took staff members hostage before a shootout that left both the suspect and an officer dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three police officers have been killed and two injured in a shooting in the southern part of Pennsylvania,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-29864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}