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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Susquehanna County, PA) Colonel Christopher Paris, the Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police gave an update on Thursday evening in New Milford about the incident involving two PSP state troopers getting ambushed by sixty-one-year-old Carmine Faino who killed fifty-seven-year-old Lori Wasko of Thompson Township in Susquehanna County on Thursday morning. This incident occurred on State Route 171 in the town of Thompson in Thompson Township, Pennsylvania outside of the home of Wasko. Troopers Joseph Perechinsky and William Jenkins III were the two police troopers that got shot at twice by Faino before Faino got shot and killed by police. Colonel Paris also mentioned in his address on Thursday that Faino took a seat on a propane tank at one point during the incident even though police tried to make negotiations with Faino, who was using a longgun that was semi-automatic to cause the shooting to occur. Colonel Paris along with Susquehanna County District Attorney Marion O’Malley both expressed condolences for the family of the late Wasko in their addresses on Thursday. Both of the Pennsylvania State Police troopers that got shot that day were lifeflighted and they are both in stable condition. According to Colonel Paris, Trooper Perechinsky and Trooper Jenkins “are in good spirits.” There was also another victim of this incident. The first was an EMT from Barnes Kasson Hospital named Karl Lawson who tried to respond to this incident in his SUV and is now in stable condition after his vehicle got hit with gunfire on State Route 171 while he got injured trying to evade the gunfire.