Three American police officers killed two injured in Pennsylvania with shots | Crime News
State authorities have confirmed that the shooter had been killed but offered little details on the incident in Rural York County.
Posted on September 17, 2025
Three police officers were killed and two critically injured in a Pennsylvania shooting, who also led to the shooter’s death.
The police killed and injured would have followed a domestic investigation that started the day before.
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Speaking in a local hospital where the two officers were in critical condition but stable on Wednesday, the Pennsylvania state police commissioner, Christopher Paris, confirmed that “the shooter is dead”, but provided little details on the fatal events that took place during the County of York shooting.
“I can assure you that all the resources of the Pennsylvania state police are under charge,” said Paris, adding that the shooting site was still “an active scene”.
Paris said Pennsylvania’s state police would condemn a “major case team” in partnership with the York County Prosecutor’s Office and that he had been in contact with the FBI.
The commissioner was joined by the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, who had rushed to the scene in the canton of North Codorus, about 185 kilometers (115 miles) west of Philadelphia, to meet families of the police killed and injured.
“It is an absolutely tragic and devastating day for the County of York and the whole Commonwealth in Pennsylvania,” said Shapiro.
The shooting of the five police officers intervenes in the heels of another high -level police officer who rocked the county of less than 500,000 people.
On February 22, an officer was killed by police gunshots during a shooting with a man who held staff members in a local hostage hospital. The striker was also killed.
Pennsylvania’s prosecutor general, Dave, on Sunday, who worked as a prosecutor in the County of York for years and also went to the scene on Wednesday, judged the shooting “unfathomable” on social networks.
Learning that three officers were killed in the county of York where I worked for many years as a prosecutor, and always calling at home, is unfathomable.
This loss is a reminder heartbreaking of the sacrifices that the police and other first stakeholders make every day. pic.twitter.com/jv0qqljzvz
– The Attorney General of AP, Dave, Sunday (@PattorneyGen) September 17, 2025
A local academic district emerged a shelter prescription on site while reports on the shooting emerged. The order was lifted later in the afternoon. The district said in a statement that the authorities “advised us to hold students and staff in our buildings as a precaution while several roads in the region are closed”.
US prosecutor Pamela Bondi called violence against the police “a scourge on our society”.
Governor Shapiro said Bondi had contacted him directly to express the support of the federal government.
