Two police officers injured after responding to a shots fired call in Susquehanna County; police kill shooter and shooter kills female victim

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Suqsuehanna County, PA) Two people have died and two police officers got injured after being connected to a shots fired call in Susquehanna County that occurred yesterday. According to the Pennsylvania State Police, Troopers Joseph Perechinsky and William Jenkins III were each shot twice and airlifted to hospitals but are in stable condition. Those two responded to a call of shots fired and got ambushed by a shooter near the town of Thompson on State Route 171. Sixty-one-year-old Carmine Faino killed fifty-seven-year-old Lori Wasko after shooting her outside her home. Police confirm that Faino was shot and killed by police and that there is no public threat following this incident.