A 61-year-old man shot and killed his neighbor in rural Pennsylvania Thursday and then ambushed first responders, wounding two state troopers and causing an EMT to crash a vehicle while firing dozens of rounds from a semiautomatic weapon, police said. The attacker was later killed by police. <\/p>\n
The boyfriend of the woman who was killed, Lori Wasko, called 911 from their home near Thompson to report that shots had been fired, state police Col. Christopher Paris said. Police did not say why the suspect, identified as Carmine Faino, decided to kill 57-year-old Wasko outside her home and then open fire on the others. <\/p>\n
Police said after shooting troopers Joseph Perechinsky and William Jenkins, Faino shot a police drone from the sky while sitting next to a propane tank they feared could be used as a bomb. <\/p>\n
Perechinsky, with two chest wounds, commandeered a tractor-trailer that was driving by to block the roadway and prevent other motorists from driving into harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n
He ordered the driver to \u201cpull his semi rig across the roadway so that more people would not drive down that roadway and potentially be subjected to the fire,\u201d Paris said.<\/p>\n
Perechinsky was \u201cstill thinking at that point in time, after being shot twice in the chest, what can I do to secure this location? What can I do to make sure nobody else gets hurt?\u201d Paris said.<\/p>\n
Faino also fired at an SUV operated by a responding emergency worker, Paris said, and the man was injured when that vehicle veered off the roadway. He was being treated for injuries, Paris said late Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to speak to his motive leading up to this. I would say you can draw certain conclusions from the standpoint that we believe Faino shot our victim prior to our arrival and then from a position of tactical advantage fired dozens and dozens of rounds,\u201d Paris said.<\/p>\n
Investigators are looking into Faino\u2019s past, Paris said. He was Wasko\u2019s across-the-street neighbor, living several hundred yards (meters) away. <\/p>\n
Both troopers, who had been wearing ballistic vests, were in stable condition with serious injuries Thursday night and \u201care very lucky to be alive,\u201d Paris said.<\/p>\n
The wounded Perechinsky applied a tourniquet to Jenkins before two other troopers were able to help rescue them, Paris said. The troopers were flown to hospitals for medical care.<\/p>\n
Gov. Josh Shapiro called the two troopers heroes and said Perechinsky \u201csaved lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe acted decisively. He acted thoughtfully. And the work he did today exemplifies the absolute best of the Pennsylvania State Police,\u201d Shapiro said.<\/p>\n
Faino had a rifle and did not comply with demands, a state police statement said. He was \u201cultimately shot and killed during the incident,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
The shooting happened about 5 miles (8 kilometers) north of the borough of Thompson, some 163 miles (262 kilometers) north of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Erika Mills, who lives less than a mile from where the shootings took place, said it made for a terrifying day in a community that is usefully peaceful.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very very quiet town. There has never been anything comparable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 61-year-old man shot and killed his neighbor in rural Pennsylvania Thursday and then ambushed first responders, wounding…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[78268,78267,78269,57,4222,10577,2936,78265,50,5217,2830,3677,61,67,132,68,78266],"class_list":{"0":"post-128070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-carmine-faino","10":"tag-christopher-paris","11":"tag-erika-mills","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-gun-violence","14":"tag-josh-shapiro","15":"tag-law-enforcement","16":"tag-lori-wasko","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-pa-state-wire","19":"tag-pennsylvania","20":"tag-shootings","21":"tag-u-s-news","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-william-jenkins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114991116106848595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}