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Hours after the violence, community members held American flags
and saluted as police and emergency vehicles formed a procession
to the coroner’s office.
Gov. Josh Shapiro condemned the violence at a news conference
and said it was a tragic loss of life. Attorney General Pamela
Bondi called the violence against police “a scourge on our
society.”
It was one of the deadliest days for Pennsylvania police this
century. In 2009 three Pittsburgh officers responding to a
domestic disturbance were ambushed and shot to death by a man in
a bulletproof vest.
Police departments across the region expressed condolences on
social media. People were leaving flowers at the headquarters of
the Northern York Regional Police Department.
The investigation into the shooting will cover multiple
locations in York County, state police said in a statement.
The shooting erupted in the area of North Codorus Township,
about 115 miles (185 km) west of Philadelphia, not far from
Maryland, authorities said.
Dirk Anderson heard “quite a few” shots from his home across the
street from the shooting, he said. He saw a helicopter and
police arrive.
The emergency response unfolded on a rural road in south-central
Pennsylvania. Some 30 police vehicles blocked off roads bordered
by a barn, a goat farm and soybean and corn fields.
The two injured officers were in critical but stable condition
at York Hospital, authorities said.
Authorities did not identify the shooter, the officers or which
police department they belonged to, or describe how they were
shot, citing the investigation.
Family members of those killed were grieving but proud of their
loved ones, said Shapiro.
Another officer in the area was killed in February, when a man
armed with a pistol and zip ties entered a hospital’s intensive
care unit and took staff members hostage before a shootout that
left both the man and an officer dead.
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Associated Press reporters Patrick Whittle in Portland, Maine;
Kimberlee Kruesi in Providence, Rhode Island; Michael Casey in
Boston and Audrey McAvoy in Honolulu contributed to this report.
Levy reported from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Dale from
Philadelphia.
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