Deadly Shootings and Police Action in Pennsylvania and Washington State

A state trooper was killed and another was critically injured during two violent encounters with the same armed suspect in central Pennsylvania. The suspect was fatally shot during a gunfight with the trooper who was killed. The violence began when the gunman opened fire on a Pennsylvania state trooper near the State Police barracks in Mifflintown. Following an intense three-hour search, state police cornered the suspect in Walker Township, where a gunfight broke out between the suspect and another state trooper, resulting in both the suspect and the trooper being killed.