Three police officers were fatally shot and two others were seriously injured Wednesday while trying to serve a warrant in a rural part of York County, Pennsylvania, state police officials said.
The two who were injured in the shooting were in critical but stable condition at an area hospital, the Pennsylvania State Police commissioner, Col. Christopher Paris, said at a news conference Wednesday evening.
Paris said the shooter was fatally shot by the police.
The killings drew the attention of federal and state officials, and a visit by the governor. But it left its deepest mark on the residents of this county of farms in southeast Pennsylvania. Just seven months earlier, a 30-year-old police officer in York County was shot and killed after he responded to a hostage situation in the inte