{"id":105159,"date":"2024-04-15T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/two-officers-shot-and-killed-while-investigating-stolen-vehicle-in-salina-new-york\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T12:00:16","slug":"two-officers-shot-and-killed-while-investigating-stolen-vehicle-in-salina-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/two-officers-shot-and-killed-while-investigating-stolen-vehicle-in-salina-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Two officers shot and killed while investigating stolen vehicle in Salina, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-15\/GETTYRF_8822_policelights.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Douglas Sacha\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(SALINA, N.Y.) &#8212; A sheriff&#8217;s deputy and a police officer have died after shots were fired as they investigated a stolen vehicle in Salina, New York, officials confirmed early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A Syracuse police officer and an Onondaga County sheriff&#8217;s deputy were initially taken to a local hospital in critical condition following the shooting, officials said earlier. Both were pronounced dead at University Hospital, a police official said Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The person authorities consider the prime suspect in the case was also killed.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 8 p.m. ET, the officers were trying to perform a vehicle traffic stop, officials said Monday morning. When the vehicle did not stop, the officers got the license plate number and went to a location associated with it, according to the authorities.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>ABC News&#8217; Megan Wordell and Darren Reynolds contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Sacha\/Getty Images (SALINA, N.Y.) &#8212; A sheriff&#8217;s deputy and a police officer have died after shots were fired as they investigated a stolen vehicle in Salina, New York, officials confirmed early Monday morning. A Syracuse police officer and an Onondaga County sheriff&#8217;s deputy were initially taken to a local<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/two-officers-shot-and-killed-while-investigating-stolen-vehicle-in-salina-new-york\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}