Two trucks had their ladders raised as an archway over the road. Firefighters lined the road way with salutes as dozens of police vehicles from around York County escorted an ambulance carrying the body of West York officer who was killed during a hostage situation earlier in the day at UPMC Memorial Hospital.
Read more about the tragic incident that injured several others in the stories below. A man who took hostages in a Pennsylvania hospital during a shooting that killed a police officer and wounded five other people highlights the rising violence against U. Diogenes Archangel-Ortiz, 49, carried a pistol and zip ties into the intensive care unit at UPMC Memorial Hospital in southern Pennsylvania's York County and took staff members hostage Saturday before he was killed in a shootout with police, officials said.
Officers opened fire as Archangel-Ortiz held at gunpoint a female staff member whose hands had been zip-tied, police said. Many people are wondering how they can donate and help the families of the two officers who lost their lives over the weekend. Identification of the four people will not be released until the next of kin are notified, and autopsies are pending. Federal officials reportedly arrested 12 people during the weekend raid, despite requesting space to hold A Georgia sheriff's deputy won't face criminal charges for fatally shooting a Black man during a traffic stop that spiraled into a violent struggle, the district attorney who examined body camera video and other evidence in the killing said Tuesday.
Leonard Cure, 53, was killed just three years after Florida authorities had freed him from prison after serving 16 years for a crime he did not commit. A year after Ruby Franke was sentenced to at least four, and up to 30 years in federal prison for child abuse, her estranged husband Kevin Franke shared insight into where they stand.
Louisiana death row inmate Christopher Sepulvado died Saturday his lawyers announced. He had been given an execution date in March.
