Officers learned the victims had been carjacked at gunpoint by two men wearing shirts with the word “POLICE” written on the front, Burbank police said.
Burleson Police Chief Billy Cordell said during a press conference the officer approached the vehicle on the passenger side when one of the three occupants in the vehicle fired shots and struck the officer.
The officer was stopped at a traffic light while off-duty in his personal vehicle at about 12:21 p.m. when the suspects pulled up behind and alongside the vehicle and fired shots inside, wounding the officer in the lower torso, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said.
Blaine, MN, police say officers first responded to a report of a shoplifting at a Kohl’s just before 1 p.m. Officers soon located the suspects in a stolen car. They drove off, then reportedly carjacked the driver of a pick-up truck at gunpoint and fled north on Highway 65.
Sarver said he and suspect Christian Lee Guzman had an intense struggle, as Guzman tried to steal a car outside of San Marcos Premium Outlets. At the time, Sarver had no idea there were two girls, a 10 and 15-year-old, inside the car. Then they started screaming.
Concord officials identified the fatally shot officer as Jason Shuping, 25, who had been with the department since 2019. The wounded officer was identified as Kaleb Robinson, 23. He suffered minor injuries, officials said.
An officer with the Chicago Police Department was off duty in her personally owned vehicle when she was approached by an assailant armed with a gun, who demanded that she exit the car.
Officers with the Philadelphia Police Department shot and killed a man who had allegedly murdered a woman and stolen her automobile early Thursday morning.
An officer with the Monroe (MI) Police Department was shot twice at a traffic stop on Sunday evening as she attempted to conduct a traffic stop of a vehicle suspected to have been carjacked earlier in the day.
A man in Florida is suspected of having created a plot to have a Jacksonville Sheriff's deputy killed.
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