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(Aliquippa, Pa.) Pa State Police in Beaver are reporting that an unnamed Trooper was on patrol in the city of Aliquippa early this morning around 12:05 AM when he and his partner observed a disturbance on the sidewalk outside the Franklin Mini-Mart located on Franklin Ave in Aliquippa. The Troopers exited the patrol vehicle and approached 41-year-old Damián Bradford of Pittsburgh. As the Troopers approached Bradford he ran into the store. The Troopers pursued him into the store and a struggle ensued inside the store. During the struggle Bradford discharged his firearm and struck one of the Troopers in his leg. Bradford was taken into custody by police and the Trooper who was shot was transported to a Pittsburgh hospital. The other Trooper was also transported to the hospital to be checked out.  There is no word on the condition of the Trooper who was shot.

If Bradford’s name is familiar he is the same man who admitted shooting Dr. Gulam Moonda on May 13, 2005, in an emergency pull-off along the Ohio Turnpike in Cuyahoga County. He was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison.
It was all a part of a plot that Moonda’s wife Donna put together and Bradford has been out of jail for a little over a year.