Pennsylvania
Western Pennsylvania police officers killed in line of duty since 2008
Monday’s deadly capturing of a McKeesport police officer marks two line-of-duty deaths already this 12 months for regulation enforcement in Western Pennsylvania after greater than a five-year hole.
The McKeesport officer, Sean Sluganski, was killed whereas responding to a request to carry out a verify on a person’s psychological well being. Authorities mentioned that when officers arrived on Wilson Avenue, the suspect walked away from them and opened fireplace once they reached the 1300 block of Grandview Avenue. One other McKeesport officer was shot and wounded. Particulars in regards to the incident are nonetheless unfolding.
The incident comes 5 weeks to the day after Brackenridge police Chief Justin McIntire was gunned down.
Law enforcement officials within the area who misplaced their lives within the line of obligation over the previous 15 years embrace:
Justin McIntire: Authorities mentioned the Brackenridge police chief, an area native who had led his division for 4 years, was ambushed Jan. 2 whereas pursuing Aaron Swan, a convicted felon with an intensive prison document who was the topic of a daylong manhunt for a probation violation. Swan, 28, shot McIntire, 46. He fled and was later killed by police in Pittsburgh in an change of gunfire. A Tarentum police officer concerned within the pursuit, Jordan Schrecengost, was shot within the leg.
Brian Shaw: Shaw, a rookie officer with the New Kensington Police Division, was shot and killed Nov. 17, 2017 throughout a visitors cease. The Decrease Burrell resident was 25. His killer, Rahmael Holt, was convicted and is on loss of life row. Prosecutors mentioned Holt killed Shaw throughout a foot chase after the officer tried to tug over the SUV through which he was a passenger.
Scott Bashioum: A Canonsburg police officer for seven years, Bashioum, 52, was ambushed and fatally shot Nov. 10, 2016 whereas responding to a home dispute round 3:15 a.m. One other officer, James Saieva, was injured. The killer, Michael Cwiklinski, killed his estranged spouse, Dalia Sabae, and her unborn youngster earlier than killing himself. The next 12 months a bridge main into Canonsburg was renamed in Bashioum’s honor, and in 2018, an area submit workplace was rededicated in his title.
Lloyd Reed Jr.: The part-time St. Clair Township police officer was fatally shot Nov. 28, 2015 when he responded to a home violence name in New Florence. Reed, 54, was first on the scene and located suspect Ray Shetler Jr. holding a rifle. Witnesses mentioned Shetler refused to drop the weapon, Reed opened fireplace and Shetler shot again, putting the officer in an space not protected by his bulletproof vest. Shetler, who was shot within the shoulder, claimed self-defense and argued that he didn’t know Reed was a police officer. A jury acquitted him in 2018 of homicide costs.
Richard Champion: The part-time Perryopolis police officer was killed Dec. 14, 2014 throughout a high-speed chase in Perry Township, Fayette County. Champion, 35, of Ligonier, was pursuing a dashing automobile. His police cruiser had its lights and sirens activated when an SUV turned left in entrance of him on Route 51 resulting in a fiery collision.
John David Dryer: A gunman killed the 46-year-old part-time East Washington police officer throughout a visitors cease for an expired registration sticker on Dec. 18, 2011 on Interstate 70 in South Strabane. When police requested the motive force, Eli Franklin Myers III, to step away from the automotive, he shot Dryer within the thigh and one other officer, Robert Caldwell, within the hand. Myers then shot Dryer within the head earlier than driving off. After a 10-hour standoff, police fatally shot the gunman, Eli Franklin Myers III, at his Rostraver house when he emerged armed. Dryer was additionally a veterinarian. His obituary mentioned he grew up on a farm in Avella, labored all through the U.S. as a horse veterinarian and was a State Sport Fee officer.
Derek Kotecki: On Oct. 12, 2011, a fugitive ambushed the Decrease Burrell patrolman within the car parking zone of a Dairy Queen on Greensburg Highway because the officer approached to arrest him for his alleged function in a capturing 10 days earlier. Kotecki, following up on a tip, walked towards a Jeep within the lot when its occupant, Charles Submit, shot the officer twice earlier than killing himself. Kotecki, 40, was a longtime policeman and the division’s Ok-9 handler.
Michael Crawshaw: The Penn Hills officer was shot within the head and the arm when Ronald Robinson sprayed his police automotive with 13 rounds from an AK-47-style assault rifle on Dec. 6, 2009. Moments earlier, police mentioned, Robinson gunned down a person inside a close-by home over a $500 drug debt. Crawshaw, 32, was ready in his automotive for backup when he was attacked. He had been on the job for 2 years. Robinson was convicted and is serving life in jail.
Paul Sciullo, Stephen Mayhle and Eric Kelly: The three Pittsburgh cops have been killed April 4, 2009 by Richard Poplawski throughout a shootout within the metropolis’s Stanton Heights part. Sciullo and Mayhle responded to a 7 a.m. name that morning by Poplawski’s mom asking police to eject her son from the home. Prosecutors mentioned Poplawski killed Sciullo, bought right into a gun battle with Mayhle, then murdered Kelly, who was off-duty however raced to the scene when he heard a name for assistance on the police radio. A Dauphin County jury discovered Poplawski responsible in 2011. He’s on loss of life row.
Sam Hicks: A Westmoreland County native, the FBI agent was shot and killed Nov. 19, 2008 when he and a staff of officers served a drug warrant in Indiana Township. Hicks, 33, breached the entrance door of the house belong to Christina Korbe and her husband, Robert – the warrant’s goal – and was the primary one by means of. Christina Korbe, standing on the second ground, fired a gun down a darkish stairwell, putting Hicks. She claimed that she thought somebody was breaking in, and he or she fired for cover. Korbe pleaded responsible in 2011 to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to federal jail. She was launched in June.
Jonathan D. Silver is a Tribune-Assessment workers author. You possibly can contact Jonathan at jsilver@triblive.com.
Pennsylvania
While Biden campaigns in Pennsylvania, some Democratic leaders in the House say he should step aside
‘We thank God’
Morris founded Mt. Airy Church of God in Christ in 1966. It has since grown in size and influence, becoming an important and iconic place of worship for the region. Fenton, who watched Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous “Mountaintop” speech when he was 11 years old, now runs the congregation and often invokes King in his sermons, including Sunday’s.
Parishioner Handsome Newton called the event “an amazing experience.”
“It’s something that’s surreal and something that some people have never gotten to experience in their lifetime,” he told WHYY News. “This is something I’m going to tell my grandkids and great-grandkids about one day.”
Newton downplayed Biden’s age, adding, “I don’t care what people said about the debate. He actually spoke extremely well today and I was blessed to be here.”
Zetta Butler, another parishioner, called Biden’s visit “God’s given gift to the church.”
“We’re seeing so much evil that goes on in the world,” she said. “This is a man of integrity and we are so proud to have him here with us today of all days, any day. I know the election is coming up and we’re going to vote for him. He’s going to be a second-term president, and so we thank God for him and everyone.”
Down in Pennsylvania
While Biden has made Pennsylvania a regular stop in his drive for a second term, this was his first visit since the debate for which his performance has given many Democrats — including prominent elected officials — cause for concern about his ability to win the election.
Earlier in the day, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, a Democrat, told MSNBC that Biden’s TV appearance did not assuage those concerns.
The first major post-debate poll, by Bloomberg, shows Biden moved up in every swing state except Pennsylvania, where he is now down seven points — well outside the margin of polling error. With 19 electoral votes, the Keystone State may be essential to any hope for victory.
In particular, polling suggests Biden is down among Black voters in Pennsylvania and around the country. Whereas he received 92% of the Black vote in 2020, only 50% of Black voters in Pennsylvania say they would vote for him today.
Therefore, the trip to the Church of God in Christ appears to be a strategy to try to win some of those votes back.
“Black history is American history,” the president said at the church.
Fenton noted that Biden’s visit would be reported as such an attempt, saying, “I know the media says President Biden is visiting a Black church. There’s nothing on our program that says a Black church.”
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – An increasingly embattled U.S. President Joe Biden will hit the campaign trail in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Sunday, as House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries meets with senior House Democrats to discuss the president’s candidacy.
Biden, 81, facing growing calls from fellow Democrats to end his re-election campaign after a halting performance in a June 27 debate with Republican Donald Trump, 78, has vowed to stay in the race and win the Nov. 5 presidential election.
The president is struggling to put down a slow-boil uprising among some congressional Democrats and some influential donors who fear he lacks the capacity to defeat Trump in light of the debate. A much-anticipated interview with ABC News did little to put those concerns to rest.
Biden kept a low profile on Saturday, attending a church service in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, accompanied only by his sister and key adviser, Valerie Biden Owens.
In Friday’s interview, Biden said only the “Lord Almighty” could persuade him to drop out, dismissing the prospect that Democratic leaders could join forces to try to talk him into standing down. He spoke with the national co-chairs of his campaign on Saturday, the White House said, without providing any details.
On Sunday, Biden will address a Black church service in northwest Philadelphia before traveling to the state capital, Harrisburg, for a community organizing event with union members and local Democrats, his campaign said.
Pennsylvania is one of the half-dozen or so states that can swing Democratic or Republican, which are expected to determine the outcome of what has been a tight race.
He will be joined during the day by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis, U.S. Senators Bob Casey and John Fetterman, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker and other elected and community leaders, it said.
The trip is part of a July voter outreach blitz by the Democratic Party that includes a $50 million paid media campaign aimed at events such as Olympic Games and travel by Biden, his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband to every battleground state.
The campaign said it aims to have volunteers and staff knock on more than 3 million voters’ doors in July and August.
It will be Biden’s 10th visit to Pennsylvania during the 2024 election cycle.
Pressure from Congress seems likely to ramp up in the coming days as lawmakers return to Washington from a holiday recess, and donors mull their willingness to keep funding his campaign.
The political crisis is unfolding as Biden prepares to host dozens of world leaders at a high-stakes NATO summit in Washington and hold a rare solo news conference.
Five U.S. lawmakers have called for Biden to end his re-election bid, including Representative Angie Craig of Minnesota, the first Democratic member of the House of Representatives from a battleground district, with others said poised to join in.
“Given what I saw and heard from the President during last week’s debate in Atlanta, coupled with the lack of a forceful response from the President himself following that debate, I do not believe that the President can effectively campaign and win against Donald Trump,” Craig, a top 2024 target of House Republican efforts, posted on X.
Two letters are circulating among House Democrats calling for Biden to step aside, House Democratic sources have said. Many of those lawmakers had been waiting to see the ABC News interview before moving forward.
U.S. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia was contacting some fellow Democratic senators to invite them to a possible meeting on Monday to discuss Biden’s campaign. Biden told reporters he had spoken with 20 congressional Democrats, who urged him to stay on, and said knew of no senators ready to join Warner.
(Reporting by Andrea Shalal in Wilmington; Editing by William Mallard)
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