Two cops have been killed in a shootout on Sunday night as they investigated a stolen car in an upstate New York city close to Syracuse, the authorities stated.
The 2 officers have been investigating a parked car in Salina, N.Y., when a suspect shot at them, Syracuse Police Chief Joseph L. Cecile advised reporters early Monday morning. He gave no indication of a potential 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 stated. These three have been later pronounced lifeless at a close-by hospital.
Earlier within the night, round 7 p.m.., two Syracuse officers tried to cease what that they had decided to be a suspicious car, however the driver drove off, the police stated.
Officers later tracked the car’s license plate to a residence in Liverpool, a village in Salina, Onondaga County Sheriff Tobias Shelley advised reporters on Sunday evening.
After receiving info that the motive force may be armed, the Syracuse officers requested help from the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Workplace, Chief Cecile stated.
Sheriff Shelley stated 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 stated on the information convention on Monday. “That is our worst nightmare come true.”
