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An entrance to the terminal from a Philadelphia Parking Authority garage at Philadelphia International Airport in January 2022. A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed and a second officer was wounded when they confronted people breaking into a car in one of the garages.PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed and a second officer was wounded when they confronted people breaking into a car at Philadelphia International Airport, police said.
Stanford said the officers were arriving at work and were parked in the garage shortly after 11 p.m. when they saw several people breaking into a vehicle in the parking garage area. One officer died shortly after 11:30 p.m. at a hospital. His name wasn’t released but he was 50 years old and had 22 years with the force, Stanford said.“They are here at the hospital, as you can imagine, heartbroken,” Stanford said.
Police said suspects in the shooting fled in a stolen Dodge Durango, which was being sought, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The same model of car dropped off an 18-year-old man, who had two gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead there, the paper said.
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