Multiple Officers Shot and Injured in Pennsylvania
At least two people are injured.
A shooting involving police officers in York County, Pennsylvania, have left at least two people injured.
It sounds like at least one officer was hurt. From PennLive.com:
Dispatch reports said that officers went down in an incident on Haar Road in North Codorus Township. The call came in to 911 around 2:10 p.m., according to York County public information officer Ted Czech.
A log of 911 calls describes the incident as “officer down,” with a “signal 13,” which means officer in trouble. Officers needed medical transport, according to dispatch logs, with a medivac helicopter and ambulances sent to the scene.
At least two officers were transported with multiple gunshot wounds, according to dispatch logs.
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Update: Ted Czech, York County public information officer, confirmed a 2:10 p.m. call reporting a police shooting in North Codorus Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
Two individuals are in serious condition at WellSpan York Hospital, which is on lockdown.
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Sadly, per NY Post, 3 cops dead, 2 critical, plus perp killed self.
The troopers were there to serve a warrant, which means they know the name of the deceased shooter. Why is he not being named?
Depending on the nature of the warrant (search vs arrest) they may only know the name of the person they were seeking, or maybe the resident of the house. Who they actually found when they arrived may neither of those possibilities. In my experience, warrant service is often an excursion into the unknown… RIP brothers.
They know. It’s not like a dead guy is going to bogart his wallet and phone.
Probably yes they do but not necessarily. There are instances where LEO goes to the wrong house and doesn’t catch their error until after the encounter. One such happened a few months ago; LEO sneaking around, don’t announce themselves, rural homeowner confronts what he sees as a pack of bad guys maneuvering tactically and homeowner ends up shot….all this at the wrong address. Another possibility is the shooter was a third party, a guest, maybe a live in boy/girl friend, a visiting relative/friend. Bottom line is verification for name of shooter isn’t certain based on insurance of the warrant.
Most said they were serving a warrant but the Daily Mail claimed that they were there following up on an investigation from yesterday.
This sort of lack of transparency from PA officials is completely unacceptable and insane. There is no reason for the public not to be made aware of the gist of what happened, here. 5 cops don’t get shot for nothing – and they don’t send 5 cops to serve a warrant unless they think the subject is dangerous, in which case they show up expecting problems and danger.
Nothing that PA has said about this case makes any sense – though, to be fair, they’ve hardly said anything about it.
I think 5 cops serving a search or arrest warrant would be about right, normally.
For a small rural police department? Really?
grok says average warrant services in rural PA areas would tend to average 1 or 2 officers, unless high risk, etc.
Well, I don’t know where Grok is pulling his info, but I don’t have any reason to treat it as authoritative.
My reasoning is based simply on how many people are required to search, secure the occupants, carry stuff to the vehicles, etc. It all depends on what/hoe much they’re looking for.
A criminal warrant would depend entirely on what it’s for and whether they think he’ll use back doors, etc.
Oh, I should also say, 5 cops isn’t necessarily what was there to serve the warrant. Five cops were killed or wounded it seems. And we don’t know enough to know if they were all there serving the warrant, how many showed up later, or if the total was 5.
Which goes to your point below about us not knowing much at all about this, and it’s worrisome the sorts of things they’re withholding.
Northern York Regional Police has 68 sworn officers
Usually 2 show up unless the person is armed and dangerous or known for violence. Depends on what the warrant is for. I missed a court date for fishing without a license and a warrant was issued. Sheriff called me on the phone and asked me to come to the office and get it.
Because there’s no guarantee that’s the shooter. Particular for drug offenses (or illegals), there could have been 5+, 10+ different individuals at the location. In fact, given apparently FIVE cops were taken out, I’d be shocked if it was only 1 shooter.
This is….odd.
“Consulate of Mexico in Philadelphia “monitoring” York County police incident”
https://www.abc27.com/local-news/consulate-of-mexico-in-philadelphia-monitoring-york-county-police-incident/
That’s a tell.
*Inserts meme*
What an odd thing to say
To just come out with that out of the blue when no information on the shooter(s) has been released is strange.
This is a one-day story, I bet, unless pretty white widows or children can be found. Then maybe two days.
No benefit for the left or the right, unless the perp was released. Then maybe another blip.
Oh yes, good point, an illegal immigrant perp would be good for the right, adding some story days. It needs to be made more tragic though then.
In all truth, I think you are a psychopath.
Your abnormal reactions indicate you are not capable of seeing other people as “real”, but only your self. It makes you angry when you encounter empathy being expressed on the behalf of others.
Empathy being expressed as self-entertainment. If they’re not acquaintances, your sympathy is you entertaining yourself.
The dopamine hit was meant for sympathy in your neighborhood, where it can do some good. Help, slack, whatever the victim can use. The media bring the best soap opera story in the world to your own backyard, and that evolutionary sympathy kicks in and you get a dopamine hit, but it costs you nothing and does no good.
What a cold life you must live.
The “dopamine hit…costs nothing” is actually responsible for the billions in donations to various not for profits like the American Cancer Society, animal rescue, shelter for the poor, and untold numbers that provide services. These donations come from around the US, and the world like Tunnels to Towers, that aren’t funded by the government.
This is charity at its finest.
Yet you don’t hesitate to shit on that concept because people get a local dopamine hit.
What a sad life you have.
My late father was a police officer who was nearly killed and sustained life changing injuries in the line of duty. I have great empathy for other people in law enforcement who are injured or killed in the line of duty and their families whether I know them personally or not. There’s no “self-entertainment” or “dopamine hit” in it for me.
It must be awful to have such a sad and empty soul as you do.
Then you’re a specialized audience. If everybody were like you, there would be wall to wall cop shot stories. The general population though prefers pretty white women victims, so those stories are the features.
Retarded.
Is this the new “both sides” argument?? Stories that benefit the “right” disappear faster from the airwaves than you can say “he’s a gay leftist but sure, you want me to believe he’s MAGA!”:
It’s very strange. 5 cops are hit – 3 dead and 2 injured (in critical, I think) – which means this was a major operation, but there’s no information about anything. This BS about them going to serve a warrant … 5 cops don’t get shot out of nowhere for serving a warrant. Something stinks to high heaven, here.
Then, there is that weird part about the Mexican consulate alerting exican nationals in the area … which lead me to believe that this probably has something got do with an illegal, which is why Shapiro and all of PA police won’;t say a word about it.
And the FBI are going in “as backup” … WTF is that? I’ve never heard of the FBI just dropping by (even at a shooting scene) just to help out the locals. That’s what the state cops and surrounding police are for.
Something is very off about this. Hours after it happened and no one knows anything about it, really, except that lots of cops were shot and multiple dead.
“5 cops don’t get shot out of nowhere for serving a warrant.”
They do if they serve it on a meth lab, kiddie trafficking dorm, Antifa clubhouse…
For the meth lab or kiddie trafficking you can bet your butt Shapiro would have been shouting out the details over and over until everyone was sick of hearing them.
But I don’t think they send 5 cops out to serve your run-of-the-mill warrant. And if they were serving a warrant the PA officials should have said what the warrant was for.
234 PA code Rule 212:
Five cops to serve a search warrant doesn’t seem excessive unless the people at the location are very compliant. You have to control the entry point, maintain some control over the occupants, search multiple rooms, have people moving evidence found out to the vehicles, etc.
We’re talking at cross purposes, I guess. I had assumed it was an arrest warrant. Actually, no article I read said anything but “warrant” but I assumed “arrest”. Did you see it described as a search warrant anywhere?
I can understand 5 cops for a search warrant as normal.
No, I haven’t seen anything, but someone above mentioned them both. I think the lack of information says they screwed up badly somewhere and are CYAing. Hard.
It’s the Amish, I tell you!
Agreed. Just what is “The Mexican Community,” anyway?
I wonder, with the faint evidence we have right now…
Scenario: PA/local cops find out the guy they’re looking for is an illegal alien, AND is a nasty criminal in his home territory. They go to the boss to get backup. The boss (who is a DEI hire Captain or Chief) says, “You cannot assume he is a cartel man just because ICE says so. You will not assume anything on the basis of his national origin or ethnicity or the legality of his presence in this country. Do you understand?” And so 5 cops is all they could justify to go after this guy.
And now, there’s cover-up going on.
Mind you, that is just one scenario I can come up with and is conjecture based on slim to no evidence.
At the moment, my bet is potential political consequences with this situation.
Local TV is reporting the warrant had to do with a domestic incident last night.
https://www.wgal.com/article/spring-grove-pa-york-north-codorus-police-officers-shot/66542569
Oh, also that the bad guy did not die of a self-inflicted wound, but was shot by cops.
Important information in their latest update (copied from the “What we know” section):
It seems there were the 3 cops and 2 sheriff’s deputies.
I am in a nearby county. What we are hearing is it was a domestic situation that arose yesterday and the police came in connection to that. The guy was waiting in the woods and ambushed whoever came, maybe then they sent the back up. He was neutralized by the police. Very sad day for this community. Most of officers were not PA state police but local.
What none of us heard why about was the whole Mexican connection, Gov Shapiro gave a press conference at 6 but very, very little info was given. It was mostly about honoring the police officers, So all is being kept very hush-hush. Shapiro said he came down to be of support to the fallen officers’ families and the community. (Hmmm, ok, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully we will eventually know what/why it happened)
RIP heroes
A law enforcement official identified the perpetrator as 24-year-old Matthew James Ruth (August 2, 2001 – September 17, 2025) of Hanover, Pennsylvania.[8] Ruth lived in the Hanover area throughout his entire life, and resided in neighboring Penn Township at the time of the shooting.[9]
In an affidavit of probable cause, officers wrote that they were called to the North Codorus Township home on the night of the shooting, for a resident reporting a white male was on a female victim’s property and was looking into the residence with binoculars.[10] Officers immediately advised that the resident could see the man from a short distance, who she said was wearing camouflage, standing in the driveway of the home, according to the affidavit.[11] Officers from the Northern York County Regional Police Department responded to the home, and were unable to locate the man until several hours later. Investigators spoke with the resident’s daughter, who told them on a September 11 interview that on August 20, an unidentified individual set her pick-up truck on fire while the vehicle sat in the home’s driveway, but police say the woman who made the complaint later identified that man as Ruth, her ex-boyfriend. Documents also confirmed that a fire investigator responded to the residence on September 13, and determined the fire was intentionally set by Ruth.[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_North_Codorus_Township_shooting
And the Mexican Consulate is tracking this why?
They need tips on committing truck arson?