(WHTM) — Governor Josh Shapiro’s office announced that all flags will remain at half-staff today.
The office announced on Facebook that all flags in the Commonwealth will remain at half-staff on Saturday, March 14, in honor of Pfc. Krystofer Lee Lopez, a U.S. Army soldier who was killed in a training incident at Letterkenny Army Depot in Franklin County on March 12.
“Pfc. Lopez made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation as a member of the U.S. Army Reserves and the 947th Quartermaster Company, serving as a 31B military police officer with the LEAD Directorate of Emergency Services Law Enforcement Division,” Governor Shapiro’s office wrote.
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Letterkenny reported that Lopez was a member of the Personnel Force Innovation (PFI) assigned to the 947th Quartermaster Company, a tenant unit based at the depot. Dickinson College in Carlisle confirmed that Lopez was a campus public safety officer.
The Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division is currently investigating the incident.
This marks the second occurrence where Pennsylvania flags were ordered to be at half-staff this week, as Governor Shapiro ordered the flags to be at half-staff on March 9 after Corporal Timothy J. O’Connor Jr., a Pennsylvania State Police Corporal from the Lancaster Barracks, was shot and killed in the line of duty at a traffic stop in Chester County on March 8.
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