
警方称,周六一名警察在响应持枪男子报警后被击毙,另一名警察受伤。
police officer was fatally shot and another was wounded on Saturday after responding to a report of a man with a gun, authorities said.
据费城市警察局长凯文·贝塞尔称,40岁的谢恩·塞伯在周六早上早些时候在西费城被枪杀。
Shane Seiber, 40, was killed early on Saturday morning in West Philadelphia according to the city's police commissioner, Kevin Bethel.
塞伯是费城警察局的10年资深警员,他和另一名警员被送往宾夕法尼亚长老会医疗中心,幸存的警员在那里接受了手术。贝塞尔表示该警员情况稳定。贝塞尔还表示嫌疑人已被拘留。
Seiber, a 10-year veteran of the Philadelphia police department, and the other officer were transported to the Penn Presbyterian medical center, where the surviving officer underwent surgery. He was listed in stable condition, Bethel said. Bethel also said a suspect was in custody.
引用执法消息来源,《费城询问报》将嫌疑人识别为埃里克·路易斯。该报还报道称,35岁的路易斯受雇于费城市政水务部门。
Citing law enforcements sources, the Philadelphia Inquirer identified that suspect as Eric Lewis. The Inquirer also reported that Lewis, 35, was employed by Philadelphia's municipal water department.
宾夕法尼亚州州长乔什·夏皮罗表示,他已下令将旗帜降半旗以悼念塞伯。塞伯遗有一妻两子:一个七岁的男孩和一个三岁的女孩。
Pennsylvania's governor, Josh Shapiro, said he ordered flags to fly at half-mast for Seiber. He is survived by his wife and two children: a boy, age seven, and a girl, three.
根据纪念在执勤中牺牲的美国执法人员的“警官阵亡纪念页面”,塞伯自1851年以来是费城警察局第376名在执勤中牺牲的警员,也是其中第129名死于枪击的警员。
Seiber was at least the 376th Philadelphia police department officer to die in the line of duty since 1851, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page which honors US law enforcement personnel who died while on the job. He was the 129th of those officers to die from gunfire, the memorial page said.