Two law enforcement officials had 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 mentioned.
The 2 officers had 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 attainable motive.
A number of folks had 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 mentioned. These three had 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 mentioned.
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 night time.
After receiving data that the driving force may be armed, the Syracuse officers requested help from the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Workplace, Chief Cecile mentioned.
Sheriff Shelley mentioned officers had been investigating the shootout and that there was no hazard to the neighborhood.
“It’s a darkish day for Syracuse,” Mayor Ben Walsh of Syracuse mentioned on the information convention on Monday. “That is our worst nightmare come true.”