Three police officers were fatally shot and two were seriously injured in York County, Pa., on Wednesday, the state police commissioner said.
The two who were injured in the shooting were being treated at a nearby hospital, said the commissioner, Col. Christopher Paris. He said they were in critical but stable condition.
Colonel Paris said that the shooter was fatally shot by the police.
Pam Bondi, the U.S. attorney general, said on social media that federal agents were “on the scene supporting local law enforcement following the shooting of multiple police officers in York County.”
Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania arrived in the community on Wednesday afternoon and told a reporter that he had met with families of the officers killed.
Colonel Paris said at a news conference that the officers had come to the area, in a rural region southwest of the city of York, to follow up on a “domestic-related” investigation that had begun the day before. But he gave fewer other details, including the identities of those officers who were killed, and said that the matter was under investigation.
Earlier, a local official said the shooting took place at 2:10 p.m. on Wednesday.
The school district in Spring Grove, Pa., had told its schools to shelter in place because of an officer-involved shooting on Wednesday afternoon, though it later lifted the order and said schools had not been affected.
The state’s lieutenant governor, Austin Davis, posted, “Please send prayers to the officers and those involved in the shooting in York County.”
The reported site of the shooting is on a rural road about 2.5 miles outside of Spring Grove, a town of about 2,500 people halfway between York and Hanover, whose major industry is a large paper plant.
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