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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Chambersburg, PA) A press conference was held yesterday by the Pennsylvania State Police at their location in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania to provide an update on the shooting incident that happened after a retail theft and pursuit on Wednesday that seriously injured two Pennsylvania State Police Troopers. The location of the incident was along Interstate 81 South at Exit 3 in Guilford Township of Franklin County, Pennsylvania. A report came in after 6 p.m. for a retail theft at a Dick’s Sporting Goods sports store in that area. Later, troopers tried to conduct a felony car stop to a gold Chevrolet van and a gunfight began as a result. The suspect, thirty-one-year-old Lamar Lorenzo Foy of Baltimore, Maryland, was shot and killed by police after he began shooting at three Pennsylvania State Police troopers after they broke the window of the vehicle on the driver’s side. Troopers then fired back at Foy, who was later found dead by one of the three troopers. The other two troopers, twenty-three-year-old Trooper Thomas Pack and thirty-one-year-old Trooper Lucas Amarose, had serious wounds after both were shot by Foy multiple times. According to Colonel Christopher Paris, the commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, Trooper Pack is recovering at home and Trooper Amarose’s condition is serious after having surgery yesterday at Wellspan York Hospital in York, Pennsylvania, which is where both troopers were lifeflighted after the incident occurred. Two women who were suspects of this incident that were occupants in the van with Foy are in the Franklin County Jail with their bail denied. Those suspects are twenty-one-year-old Amir Loren Swift and twenty-one-year-old Giadi Jaida McGowan, both of Baltimore, Maryland. Swift and McGowan, who are accused of stealing over $1,000 from the Franklin County Dick’s Sporting Goods store have charges of retail theft and offenses related to drugs.