{"id":3331,"date":"2023-01-04T05:35:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T11:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2023-03-15T03:20:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:20:48","slug":"pennsylvania-police-chief-killed-second-officer-wounded-after-chasing-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3331","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Pennsylvania police chief killed, second officer wounded after chasing suspect<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRACKENRIDGE, Pa. \u2014 The man suspected of fatally shooting a Pennsylvania police chief and wounding another officer in confrontations during a foot pursuit near Pittsburgh was killed by police after a chase, authorities said.<br \/>\nThe officers were shot blocks apart Monday in Brackenridge, an Allegheny County town northeast of Pittsburgh. The suspect carjacked a vehicle, and when Pittsburgh detectives later spotted it, he fled, Allegheny County Police Superintendent Christopher Kearns said.<br \/>\nThe suspect crashed the vehicle after a car chase, ran into a wooded area and then toward a housing development, and fired at the pursuing detectives, who returned fire and killed him Monday evening, Kearns said.<br \/>\nState Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the governor-elect, identified the slain officer\u00a0in a tweet\u00a0as Brackenridge Police Chief Justin McIntire, saying he \u201cran towards danger to keep Pennsylvanians safe \u2014 and he made the ultimate sacrifice in service to community.\u201d<br \/>\nPolice say the second officer was wounded in the leg and is expected to survive.<br \/>\nAuthorities had identified the suspect as Aaron Lamont Swan, 28, of the nearby city of Duquesne. Kearns told reporters that Swan had been sought for a parole violation involving a weapons charge.<br \/>\nAllegheny County Police will investigate the shooting of the suspect, Kearns said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/pennsylvania-police-chief-killed-second-officer-wounded-chasing-suspec-rcna64072\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRACKENRIDGE, Pa. \u2014 The man suspected of fatally shooting a Pennsylvania police chief and wounding another officer in confrontations during a foot pursuit near Pittsburgh was killed by police after a chase, authorities said. The officers were shot blocks apart Monday in Brackenridge, an Allegheny County town northeast of Pittsburgh. The suspect carjacked a vehicle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3459,1357,1356,3458,1237],"class_list":["post-3331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-aaron-lamont-swan","tag-chief","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331","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=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7615,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions\/7615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}