An armed man lying in wait on a dead-end street shot and wounded two Ohio police officers when they parked their patrol vehicles in an undeveloped industrial park to eat lunch on Wednesday, and an officer driving into the scene in response to their call for help was also shot and seriously injured, officials said.
The shooter “was shot on scene and was pronounced deceased,” said Michael Failing, the acting police chief in Lorain, about 40km west of Cleveland.
The man “had an arsenal of weapons with him,” said Failing, who did not share further details on that and added that the available information about the shooting was preliminary.
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James Welsh, the police chief in nearby Elyria whose department is investigating what happened, told reporters earlier that Lorain officers were ambushed by a man firing a high-powered rifle and that police returned fire.
Welsh said it was not immediately clear if the suspect, a 28-year-old Lorain man whom Welsh and Failing did not name, was killed by the officers or shot himself.
Welsh said the man is believed to have acted alone.
Two of the officers sustained multiple gunshot wounds, Failing said.
They were in critical condition after being flown to a trauma center, the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police said in a statement hours after the shooting.
The other officer was shot in a hand and was treated at a local medical facility, Failing said.
The ambushed officers had just bought a pizza and parked side by side to eat in their vehicles, he said.
Responding officers loaded the wounded men into patrol vehicles and rushed them to get medical care, he said.
Authorities shared no details about what might have motivated the shooting.
“It’s a tragic day in the city of Lorain, but we’re a strong city, and we’re going to move forward,” Lorain Mayor Jack Bradley said.
Police officers would be offered counseling to help process what happened, he said.
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