{"id":91211,"date":"2025-07-25T11:10:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/91211\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:10:29","slug":"accused-gunman-was-cited-by-lorain-officer-killed-in-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/91211\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused gunman was cited by Lorain officer killed in attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LORAIN, Ohio \u2014 The gunman accused of <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news5cleveland.com\/news\/local-news\/2-police-officers-shot-in-lorain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ambushing three Lorain police officers<\/a> on Wednesday afternoon had previously been cited by one of the officers following a 2022 crash.<\/p>\n<p>According to the crash report obtained by News 5 Investigators, Officer Phillip Wagner cited Michael Parker for failure to stop after an accident and for driving left of center.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Parker crashed into a man on a motorcycle, knocking him from the bike as the two drove along Broadway Avenue on October 23, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The police report said the motorcyclist was taken to the hospital for treatment of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Court records showed Parker pleaded no contest, and the failure to stop charge was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Records from Lorain Municipal Court showed Parker paid a $150 fine and court costs in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have not revealed a motive for Wednesday\u2019s attack in which Parker is accused of killing Wagner and wounding Lorain Police Officers Peter Gale and Brent Payne.<\/p>\n<p>Police said officers returned fire, and the 28-year old Parker died during the exchange. Investigators said they also discovered \u201ca significant quantity of improvised explosive materials\u201d inside Parker\u2019s car near the scene.<\/p>\n<p><b>RELATED: <\/b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news5cleveland.com\/news\/local-news\/one-of-the-lorain-police-officers-who-was-shot-in-ambush-has-died\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Lorain officers who was ambushed has died<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the Lorain Police officers who was shot in ambush has died<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LORAIN, Ohio \u2014 The gunman accused of ambushing three Lorain police officers on Wednesday afternoon had previously been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":91212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[30044,60604,4903,32311,60601,60602,33563,50,60603,7207,101,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-91211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-ambush","10":"tag-cited","11":"tag-crash","12":"tag-killed","13":"tag-lorain","14":"tag-michael-parker","15":"tag-motorcycle","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-phillip-wagner","18":"tag-police","19":"tag-shooting","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114913570183128136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91211","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=91211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}