{"id":26097,"date":"2024-04-15T22:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T03:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26097"},"modified":"2024-04-15T22:52:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T03:52:11","slug":"at-least-two-officers-shot-in-heavily-gun-controlled-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26097","title":{"rendered":"At Least Two Officers Shot in Heavily Gun-Controlled New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A Syracuse police officer and an Onondaga County sheriff\u2019s deputy were shot in Salina, New York, Sunday shortly before 9 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Salina is a suburb of Syracuse, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Syracuse.com&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/crime\/2024\/04\/large-police-presence-at-shooting-in-salina-initial-reports-are-officer-shot.html\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that \u201can officer down call went out at 8:51 p.m.\u201d The shooting is believed to have occurred in connection with a home \u201cat 4945 Darien Drive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WYBW&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/news\/local-news\/two-officers-seriously-injured-after-shooting-outside-of-syracuse\">pointed<\/a>&nbsp;to a large police presence near the house, including a police helicopter flying overhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WSVR&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.localsyr.com\/news\/local-news\/two-law-enforcement-officers-shot-in-liverpool\/\">noted<\/a>&nbsp;the officers were \u201cseriously injured.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2024\/02\/13\/at-least-six-shot-at-bronx-subway-station-in-stringently-gun-controlled-nyc\/\">ranks<\/a>&nbsp;New York as the No. 2 state in the Union for gun control laws, describing the state as an \u201cinnovator\u201d on gun control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The gun controls include universal background checks, an \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban, a red flag law, and a \u201chigh-capacity\u201d magazine ban, among other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong>&nbsp;The Associated Press&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syracuse-new-york-fatal-shooting-police-officers-661e179c632393f3f9f741434abea2f0\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that the two officers\u2013a Syracuse police officer and a sheriff\u2019s deputy\u2013died after being transported to the hospital. Moreover, the suspect with whom they exchanged gunfire died as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The AP pointed out that the incident began with law enforcement \u201ctracking a vehicle that had eluded police earlier,\u201d then the driver of the vehicle opened fire on police once inside his residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2024\/04\/14\/atleast-two-officers-shot-heavily-gun-controlled-new-york\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Syracuse police officer and an Onondaga County sheriff\u2019s deputy were shot in Salina, New York, Sunday shortly before 9 p.m. Salina is a suburb of Syracuse, New York. Syracuse.com&nbsp;reported&nbsp;that \u201can officer down call went out at 8:51 p.m.\u201d The shooting is believed to have occurred in connection with a home \u201cat 4945 Darien Drive.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[2547,2831,1237,1530],"class_list":["post-26097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-guns","tag-new-york","tag-police","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26101,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26097\/revisions\/26101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}