Two Connecticut police officers were killed, and a third injured, in an apparent ambush Wednesday night around 11 p.m. in Bristol.
The Connecticut State Police labeled the incident an officer-involved shooting (OIS), tweeting:
The Hartford Courant reported the shooting occurred “after police went to an altercation at Bleachers, a Middle Street bar.”
After going to the bar, the officers went to the residence of someone believed to be involved in the incident at Bleachers and “apparently were ambushed.”
FOX News quoted eyewitness Ted Kraweic telling Channel 3, “We just, like, hearing the gunshots like ‘pop pop pop pop pop pop’ up and stop, and then stop for maybe 30 seconds and then another round ‘pop pop pop pop pop’ and then it just stopped. And then [we] started hearing sirens and everything else.”
The Connecticut State Police announced a procession to transport the bodies of the fallen officers to Farmington:
More details are expected in a press conference later this morning.
UPDATE: On Thursday morning the Connecticut State Police released the names of the two officers killed in Wednesday night’s officer-involved-shooting.
The Hartford Courant quoted Chief Brian Gould identifying the fallen officers as 35-year-old Sgt. Dustin Demonte and 34-year-old Alex Hamzy.
A third officer, who was seriously wounded in the incident, was identified as Alec Iurato.
The suspect who shot the officers was declared dead at the scene.
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