A Syracuse officer and a sheriff’s deputy were fatally shot in an upstate New York village on Sunday night in an exchange of gunfire that also killed the suspect, according to authorities.
The fatal incident occurred in front of a home in the Syracuse suburb of Salina about 9 p.m., when cops were examining a suspicious vehicle, according to law enforcement authorities.
A Syracuse police spokeswoman stated that one of the victims was an officer in the department of the Syracuse police and the other was a deputy in the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office.
Police Chief Joseph Cecile stated at a press conference that about 7 p.m., two Syracuse police “initiated a traffic stop on a suspicious vehicle” that fled. Although they “lost sight of the vehicle,” the license plate allowed them “to track it to an address in Liverpool.”
Cecile states that when Syracuse police and Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived at the address just after 8 p.m. and began looking over the suspicious car, they discovered what they believed to be guns inside. Abruptly, shooting broke out, resulting in “an exchange of gunfire.”
According to Cecile, the suspect, a deputy, and a cop from Syracuse were all struck and sent to a hospital where they were all declared deceased.
“We lost two heroes tonight,” Cecile remarked.
