{"id":133311,"date":"2026-03-09T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133311\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:35:08","slug":"pennsylvania-state-trooper-fatally-shot-during-traffic-stop-officials-say-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133311\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania state trooper fatally shot during traffic stop, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fox News;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fox News\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"210\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/edf3e300-ad05-11ef-bff5-0fcf27c7319d.png\"\/><\/a>Mon, March 9, 2026 at 4:39 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773041708_596_f4e7a0636b48bf6c10c00822cc37df5f.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Pennsylvania state trooper was shot and killed on Sunday night while conducting a traffic stop in Chester County, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened in West Caln Township shortly after 9 p.m. during a traffic stop near Compass and Michael roads.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Josh Shapiro announced that the trooper, identified as Timothy O&#8217;Connor, died from the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am profoundly saddened to announce that tonight, Pennsylvania State Police family lost a son, lost a hero, and lost a dedicated public servant,&#8221; Shapiro said at a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Corporal Timothy O&#8217;Connor is killed tonight doing what he&#8217;s dedicated his life to. And that is serving others, keeping our community safe, looking out for his fellow Pennsylvanians, especially right here in Chester County,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Our entire Commonwealth, State Police family, Chester County, are mourning the loss of Corporal O&#8217;Connor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click Here To Download The Fox News App;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Click Here To Download The Fox News App<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS\/mvaj7wvj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Read On The Fox News App;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Read On The Fox News App<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chester County Commissioner Eric Roe said he was praying for the trooper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chester County\u2019s brave police officers put their lives on the line for us every day. I thank all of them for their extraordinary bravery and sacrifice,&#8221; Roe said on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Original article source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/pennsylvania-state-trooper-fatally-shot-during-traffic-stop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pennsylvania state trooper fatally shot during traffic stop, officials say;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Pennsylvania state trooper fatally shot during traffic stop, officials say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mon, March 9, 2026 at 4:39 AM UTC A Pennsylvania state trooper was shot and killed on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1557,61638,33,28,30,29,14001,61637,61614],"class_list":{"0":"post-133311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-chester-county","9":"tag-corporal-timothy-o39connor","10":"tag-josh-shapiro","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","13":"tag-pennsylvania-news","14":"tag-pennsylvania-state-trooper","15":"tag-timothy-o39connor","16":"tag-west-caln-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}