Liverpool, N.Y. — Onondaga County officials gathered Sunday to dedicate the county’s Emergency Operations Center to Lt. Michael “Hooch” Hoosock, a sheriff’s deputy killed in the line of duty last year.

The building at 420 Electronics Parkway will now be known as the Lieutenant Michael Hoosock Emergency Management Center, honoring the 37-year-old deputy who was fatally shot during a standoff in Salina on April 14, 2024.

Hoosock was killed by a gunman who also fatally shot Syracuse police Officer Michael Jensen before being killed by police. The two fallen officers have since been memorialized through the naming of community centers, highways and monuments.

Sunday’s ceremony drew Hoosock’s family, county leaders and dozens of law enforcement, fire and EMS personnel who crowded the buildin

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