Wilkes Barre Police were contacted by investigators in Virginia regarding the woman and her child who were reportedly kidnapped by an armed suspect and taken to Pennsylvania.
The officer was wounded in the shoulder/chest area as he was sitting in the driver's seat, Waterbury Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo said in an early-morning news conference Thursday.
The trooper, a 10-year veteran of the force, was taken to the hospital after he was hit multiple times in the body. His condition was initially reported as critical.
The three were shot and wounded in an attack near the 22nd Chicago Police District headquarters about 5:50 a.m.
“When you look at different sections of New York City, whether it’s in Chinatown, whether it’s here in Lower Manhattan, whether it’s in Flushing or parts of Brooklyn, you’re going to see uniformed, as well as some people that may surprise you,” Commissioner Dermot Shea said.
Jamie Davidson was serving a life sentence for his role in the murder of Officer Wallie Howard Jr. He was convicted in 1993.
Three teenagers have been arrested and charged with aggravated robbery following an incident in which they allegedly drew weapons and confronted an undercover officer with the Franklin (TN) Police Department on Monday night.
The charges filed on Tuesday give the first indication of what police believe is a possible motive, that the shooting is the result of a robbery. A detective wrote in court records that the trio shot and killed Det. James Skernivitz and Scott Dingess, 50, during an attempted robbery.
The New York Police Department has taken what Police Commissioner Dermot Shea called a "seismic shift" in the agency's policing, disbanding the plainclothes anti-crime teams and reassigning those officers to other duties.
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