A man arrested for a domestic opened fire in New Jersey's Gloucester Township police headquarters early Friday morning. Three officers were wounded as a result and the gunman was killed in the encounter.
Gloucester Deputy Police Chief David Harkins told Reuters, "A violent struggle occurred while the suspect was being processed."
Among the three officers shot, two were male and one female. The three officers were brought to Cooper University Hospital. According to the hospital spokeswoman, Lori Shaffer, two of the officers suffered minor injuries, while one of the male officers was seriously injured and is currently undergoing surgery.
According to police reports, the gunman, who remains unnamed, grabbed a gun from a police officer while he was being processed for a domestic incident and started shooting sporadically. The gunman was supposedly killed in this encounter as was confirmed by Gloucester Police Chief W. Harry Earle said, according to the NBC10 report. However, Gloucester Township police have declined to confirm his statement.
Gloucester is a town in central New Jersey and is about 16 miles outside of Philadelphia.
This is second shooting in a matter of a week. Earlier this week, William Spengler ambushed four firefighters, killing two of them.
The shooting is one of the numerous shootings that occurred in 2012, beginning with the Aurora Colorado movie theater massacre, carried out by suspect James Egan Holmes to the most recent Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut at the hands of Adam Lanza, who killed 27 people of which 20 were children of ages six and seven.
