THOMPSON, Pa. (AP) \u2014 Two Pennsylvania State Police troopers were shot Thursday, Gov. Josh Shapiro said at an event outside Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Shapiro said that in the late morning in Susquehanna County, \u201ctwo state troopers were shot. Lori and I are praying for those troopers. I want you to know I\u2019ve communicated with Col. Paris. He is on the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
Christopher Paris heads the Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n
An aide said Shapiro headed to the shooting location in the northeastern Pennsylvania county, which borders New York state.<\/p>\n
A state police spokesperson, Trooper Logan T. Brouse, said the location was along Route 171 near the village of Thompson. That\u2019s about 163 miles (262 kilometers) north of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick said in a social media post that he was monitoring the developing situation. He also expressed empathy for the troopers who were shot.<\/p>\n
\u201cDina and I are praying for our brave state troopers in Susquehanna County and monitoring the situation closely as more details emerge,\u201d McCormick posted.<\/p>\n
U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan said on X that he was \u201crelieved to hear the troopers involved in today\u2019s incident in Thompson Township are expected to be in stable condition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THOMPSON, Pa. (AP) \u2014 Two Pennsylvania State Police troopers were shot Thursday, Gov. Josh Shapiro said at an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,48316,48317,793,8629,4381,48318,3,5631,3234,13810,795,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-65783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-christopher-paris","10":"tag-dave-mccormick","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-josh-shapiro","13":"tag-law-enforcement","14":"tag-logan-t-brouse","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-pa-state-wire","17":"tag-pennsylvania","18":"tag-rob-bresnahan","19":"tag-u-s-news","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}