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struggle4progress

(124,603 posts)
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 10:29 AM Thursday

Rural Pennsylvania shooting leaves 3 officers dead, 2 wounded

By Karina Tsui,Amanda Musa,Gabe Cohen,John Miller,Josh Campbell

Spring Grove, Pennsylvania

When officers in rural Pennsylvania approached a farmhouse Wednesday afternoon to serve a warrant, they took precautions, carefully scouring the scene with a drone.

Still, they weren’t prepared for an armed man dressed in camouflage – now identified as Matthew Ruth – who lurked in nearby cornfields and had no interest in talking.

The shooter opened fire. At least 30 shots rang out, a neighbor said. “It seemed like a war zone, sounded like a war zone,” Dave Miller told CNN.

Three officers were left for dead outside, law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation told CNN, and the shooter moved on to the farmhouse in York County where two more officers were shot and wounded ...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/us/york-county-pa-police-officers

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Rural Pennsylvania shooting leaves 3 officers dead, 2 wounded (Original Post) struggle4progress Thursday OP
I'm sure somehow they blame this on the left. yourout Thursday #1
Far left radical because he couldn't *possibly* be Heidi Thursday #4
... CNN, quoting law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation, reported struggle4progress Thursday #2
24 year old man who had been stalking his ex-girlfriend. yardwork Thursday #3
Good grief malaise Thursday #7
We know where most of the violence comes from. yardwork Thursday #8
And of course these officers won't receive anywhere near the kind of acolades and lionizing as Charlie Kirk Justice Brandeis Thursday #5
There's no political capital to be gained. yardwork Thursday #9
Here's the latest Coldwater Thursday #6

Heidi

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4. Far left radical because he couldn't *possibly* be
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 10:39 AM
Thursday

one of their gunned-up cultists. That’s how quickly and easily they sell their own out.

struggle4progress

(124,603 posts)
2. ... CNN, quoting law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation, reported
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 10:34 AM
Thursday

that the suspect was the ex-boyfriend of a woman living in the farmhouse where the shooting occurred. The officials told the network that, a day earlier, the woman had alerted local police after seeing the accused in a nearby cornfield ...

Pennsylvania police shooting: What happened, who are the suspect, victims?
Elizabeth Melimopoulos
Published On 18 Sep 2025

Justice Brandeis

(299 posts)
5. And of course these officers won't receive anywhere near the kind of acolades and lionizing as Charlie Kirk
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 10:42 AM
Thursday

Just watch.

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