Article 6Z6AY Pennsylvania shooting: man kills neighbour, ambushes and wounds two state troopers

Pennsylvania shooting: man kills neighbour, ambushes and wounds two state troopers

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Police say 61-year-old man attacked his neighbour and then fired dozens of rounds at emergency workers responding to the attack

A 61-year-old man shot and killed his neighbor in rural Pennsylvania on Thursday and then ambushed responding state troopers, wounding two and shooting down a drone while firing dozens of rounds from a semiautomatic weapon, police said. The attacker was killed by police.

The boyfriend of the woman who was killed, Lori Wasko, called 911 from their home near Thompson, in Susquehanna county, to report that shots had been fired, state police Col. Christopher Paris told reporters. Police did not say why Carmine Faino decided to kill 57-year-old Wasko outside her home and then fire at responding troopers Joseph Perechinsky and William Jenkins.

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