12/22/2014
MIAMI – A police officer died on the weekend after being shot in the town of Tarpon Springs, 20 miles north of Tampa, Florida, according to local authorities on Sunday.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department, Officer Charles Kondek was killed about 3 a.m. on Grande Boulevard in the central Florida community.
As a result of the shooting, local police are holding Marco Antonio Parrilla Jr., 24, identified as a transient and suspected of firing the fatal shot, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
According to reporting by local television station WTSP, the shooting erupted when Kondek – age 45, the father of five and a 17-year veteran of the Tarpon Springs police force – responded to a report of someone, apparently the suspect, creating a disturbance and knocking on the doors of homes.
When police arrived at the scene, the suspect opened fire, killing the officer, and then tried to flee, but other officers apprehended and arrested him.
The killing comes a day after New York City police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were murdered in cold blood while sitting inside their patrol car by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who later killed himself at a local subway station.
According to New York police, the attacker hours earlier had announced his intention to shoot police officers, evidently in response to the recent killings of several African Americans by U.S. law enforcement officers in unrelated incidents.
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MIAMI – A police officer died on the weekend after being shot in the town of Tarpon Springs, 20 miles north of Tampa, Florida, according to local authorities on Sunday.According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department, Officer Charles Kondek was killed about 3 a.m. on Grande Boulevard in the central Florida community.
As a result of the shooting, local police are holding Marco Antonio Parrilla Jr., 24, identified as a transient and suspected of firing the fatal shot, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
According to reporting by local television station WTSP, the shooting erupted when Kondek – age 45, the father of five and a 17-year veteran of the Tarpon Springs police force – responded to a report of someone, apparently the suspect, creating a disturbance and knocking on the doors of homes.
When police arrived at the scene, the suspect opened fire, killing the officer, and then tried to flee, but other officers apprehended and arrested him.
The killing comes a day after New York City police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were murdered in cold blood while sitting inside their patrol car by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who later killed himself at a local subway station.
According to New York police, the attacker hours earlier had announced his intention to shoot police officers, evidently in response to the recent killings of several African Americans by U.S. law enforcement officers in unrelated incidents.
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