The Public Prosecutor says that the suspected chaser set up an ambush and killed 3 Pennsylvania officers

One of the prosecutors said on Thursday that a suspect armed with a gun hidden in the house of his ex -girlfriend in the agricultural land circulated in southern Pennsylvania and police officers who were arrested, killing three of them.

The police noticed their arrival at the scene at about 2:10 pm on Wednesday that the door to the house was opened, although the former friend and her mother closed him before leaving the property for their safety.

Tim Parker, York County’s lawyer, said Tim Parker, who was carrying a rifle similar to AR with suppression, said, said.

He said that the suspect fired multiple rounds of the four officers at the door, killing three of them.

Then this was followed by a fiery battle between Ruth and two officers abroad.

Parker said that Roth was wounded by an honorable deputy before the armed police fell to death.

Sergeant detective. He said that Cody Baker, Detective Mark Baker and the investigator Isaiah Ehiser are the officers who were killed. They all worked in the regional police department of North York Province.

“Each of these men represents the best in the police. They served with professionalism, dedication and courage. They were leaders inside our agency, committed to protecting this society and standing alongside their follow -up officers,” President Dave Lash said of the three regional regional police officers in North York.

One of the injured officers also belongs to the North York Ministry. The authorities did not specify the department’s affiliation with the second employee who was transferred to the hospital.

Investigators later found that the former friend’s dog was killed on the basement.

The mother of the woman contacted the police on Tuesday

On Thursday, the neighboring departments rose to help bearing the work burden while the agency’s sorrows.

Violence broke out on Wednesday afternoon when the officers sought Ruth, who believed that he was in the property the night before.

A woman was briefly dated to live there. Her mother contacted the police late on Tuesday after she spotted a camouflaged man looking at the house with perspectives.

The officers also spoke with the daughter, who had a picture of a trail camera that shows a person carrying a gun outside and aimed at a domain at home, according to a written police statement.

Ruth faded from the police that night, which led them to return the next day with misdemeanors to arrest him.

The young car had caught fire in August, and she was suspected of being involved.

Al -Jar Rose Miller said that the investigators visited the house of Ruth in Hanover, about 16 km away from the killing of the officers. She said that they first arrived around the back, then again at about 5 pm, they left around midnight with bags of possible evidence.

Miller did not know Ruth well, but he reminded him that he was working to collect Boy Scout.

No one responded to the door at home on Thursday.

“We need to do better work as a community,” said state governor Josh Shapiru on Wednesday evening. “We need to help people who believe that capturing a weapon, and picking up a weapon is the solution to resolving conflicts.”

It was one of the bloody days in the state to enforce the law this century, as the match was matching from a day in 2009 when three officers were subjected to the suspected domestic violence in a bullet -resistant jacket.

Mourning

With the spread of news about the tragedy, community members detained American flags and live when the police and emergency cars formed a procession for the corporation of the pathologist.

Police departments were saddened throughout the region on social media, while people left flowers outside the headquarters of the killed officers.

The confrontation was revealed on a rural road in the south of Pennsylvania, not far from Maryland. About 30 police vehicles have banned roads bordered by a barn, goat farm, soybean and corn fields.

The area, North Codorus, is about 75 km north of Baltimore.

“It is strange that he is now going on this road, seeing all these cars and knowing what happened here,” said Brian Rice, who lives near and walks regularly with his wife. He said he was still reeling on Thursday from the news.

Another officer in York County was killed in February, when an armed man entered a pistol and Zip ties to the hospital’s intensive care unit and the employees took hostages before an exchange of fire that left both the man and a dead officer.