The alleged harasser has taken tension and killed 3 Pennsylvania officers, said the prosecutor

An alleged harasser armed with a hidden rifle at the home of his ex-girlfriend in the hilly agricultural land in the south of Pennsylvania and set an ambush to police officers who came to arrest him, killing three, announced on Thursday a prosecutor on Thursday

Police arriving at the scene around 2:10 p.m. Wednesday noted that the door of the house had been unlocked even if the ex-girlfriend and his mother had locked it before leaving the property for their safety.

They opened the door and were immediately dismissed by the suspect, Matthew James Ruth, 24, who was carrying an archar with a suppressor, said the York county prosecutor Tim Barker.

He said the suspect had shot several bullets over the four officers at the door, killing three of them.

A shooting then followed between Ruth and two officers outside.

Ruth injured an assistant to a sheriff before the police drew the shooter to death, said Barker.

Sgt detective. Cody Becker, detective Mark Baker and detective Isaiah Emenheiser were the officers killed, he said. They all worked for the regional police service of the county of Northern York.

“Each of these men represented the best of the police. They served with professionalism, dedication and courage. They were leaders in our agency, determined to protect this community and to stand next to their follow-up officers,” said chief Dave Lash about the three regional police officers in North-York killed.

One of the injured officers also belongs to the department of Northern York. The authorities did not identify the affiliation of the department of the second hospitalized officer.

The investigators later discovered that the dog of the ex-girlfriend had been shot in the basement.

The mother’s mother called police on Tuesday

The neighboring departments intervened on Thursday to help assume the workload while the agency staff cried.

Violence broke out on Wednesday afternoon while the police were looking for Ruth, who said it was on the property in the previous night.

A woman with whom he had briefly released lived there. His mother called the police on Tuesday evening after spotting a man carrying a camouflage while looking in the house with binoculars.

The police also spoke with the girl, who had a photo of a trail camera showing someone wearing a rifle outside and aimed at home, according to a police affidavit.

Ruth escaped the police that evening, leading them to return the next day with mandates of offense for his arrest.

The young woman’s car was burnt down in August and she said that she suspected that he was perhaps involved.

Investigators visited Ruth’s home in Hanover twice, about 16 kilometers from where the police were killed, the neighbor said. They arrived around noon around noon, she said, then at around 5 p.m., they left around midnight with bags of potential evidence.

Miller did not know Ruth well, but remembered that he was working on funds from Boy Scout.

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3 police officers killed during the shooting in Pennsylvania

Three police officers were fatally slaughtered and two others were injured Wednesday in southern Pennsylvania, and the shooter was killed by police, the authorities announced.

No one answered the door at home on Thursday.

“We have to do better as a company,” said Governor Josh Shapiro on Wednesday evening. “We have to help people who think that taking a gun, picking up a weapon is the response to dispute resolution.”

It was one of the deadliest days of the State for the police this century, corresponding to the results of a day in 2009, when three officers were embedded by a suspect of domestic violence sporting a bulletproof vest.

Community mourning

While the news of the tragedy spreads, the members of the community held American flags and praised the police and the emergency vehicles formed a procession at the Coroner office.

The region’s police services cried on social networks, while people left flowers outside the headquarters of the officers killed.

The confrontation took place on a rural road in the South Center of Pennsylvania, not far from Maryland. Thirty police vehicles blocked the roads bordered by a barn, a goat farm and soy and corn fields.

The region, North Codorus, is approximately 75 kilometers north of Baltimore.

“It’s strange to walk on this road now and see all these cars and know what happened here,” said Bryan Rice, who lives nearby and regularly travels with his wife. He said he was still in shock from the news Thursday.

Another officer was killed in the county of York in February, when a man armed with a pistol and zipped ties entered the hospital’s intensive care unit and took staff members hostage before a shooting that left the man and a dead officer.