Two cops have been killed in a shootout on Sunday night as they investigated a stolen automobile in an upstate New York city close to Syracuse, the authorities mentioned.
The 2 officers have been investigating a parked automobile in Salina, N.Y., when a suspect shot at them, Syracuse Police Chief Joseph L. Cecile informed reporters early Monday morning. He gave no indication of a attainable motive.
A number of folks have been shot within the ensuing shootout, together with an officer from the Syracuse Police Division, a sheriff’s deputy from Onondaga County and one male suspect, the police mentioned. These three have been later pronounced useless at a close-by hospital.
Earlier within the night, round 7 p.m.., two Syracuse officers tried to cease what they’d decided to be a suspicious automobile, however the driver drove off, the police mentioned.
Officers later tracked the automobile’s license plate to a residence in Liverpool, a village in Salina, Onondaga County Sheriff Tobias Shelley informed reporters on Sunday evening.
After receiving data that the driving force is likely to be armed, the Syracuse officers requested help from the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Workplace, Chief Cecile mentioned.
Sheriff Shelley mentioned officers have been investigating the shootout and that there was no hazard to the group.
“It’s a darkish day for Syracuse,” Mayor Ben Walsh of Syracuse mentioned on the information convention on Monday. “That is our worst nightmare come true.”
