Pennsylvania Officer Shot, Suspect Killed
A Lancaster, Pa. police officer was shot and the suspected gunman was killed Tuesday afternoon.
Police officers were attempting to serve a warrant at an apartment at 305 E. Chestnut Street shortly before 1 p.m. when the incident occurred, according to The Lancaster New Era.
The wounded police officer was transported to Lancaster General Hospital with a gunshot wound to the shoulder. Lt. Todd Umstead told reporters that the officer is alert and awake and the injury appears to be non-life threatening.
Umstead said that police received a call that there was a wanted man at the apartment and officers went there to serve the warrant.
The names of the wounded officer and the dead gunman were not immediately released.
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