{"id":350340,"date":"2026-09-18T16:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350340\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:56:26","slug":"ny-state-police-trooper-named-in-cairo-campground-deadly-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350340\/","title":{"rendered":"NY State Police trooper named in Cairo campground deadly shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York State Police have released the name of the trooper involved in a deadly shooting at a Cairo campground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CAIRO, N.Y. (WNYT)- New York State Police (NYSP) have identified the trooper involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/top-stories\/camper-killed-by-trooper-at-cairo-campsite-identified\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monday\u2019s deadly shooting<\/a> at a campground in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State police said the trooper is Ronal Diaz-Arriaza. They said Diaz-Arriaza has been with NYSP since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shooting happened Monday, September 14 at the Whip-O-Will campground. Police said Amir Hamza, 45, was killed after he pointed what police said looked like a black pistol-style gun directly at Trooper Diaz-Arriaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said the gun turned out to be a BB gun.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/amir-hamza\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amir Hamza<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/whip-o-will-2\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whip-O-Will<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/trooper-involved-shooting\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trooper Involved Shooting<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/ronal-diaz-arriaza\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronal Diaz-Arriaza<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/new-york-state-police\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York State Police<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/cairo\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cairo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York State Police have released the name of the trooper involved in a deadly shooting at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130866,126235,9,11,10,49,51,50,747,130869,130868,130867],"class_list":["post-350340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-amir-hamza","tag-cairo","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-ronal-diaz-arriaza","tag-trooper-involved-shooting","tag-whip-o-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}