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LANDOVER, Md. (WUSA9) -- One officer was killed and two suspects are in custody after a shooting near the Prince George's County Police Headquarters on Sunday. Police have identified the fallen officer as 28-year-old Jacai Colson, a narcotics detective. He was dressed in plain clothes when the shooting happened. Colson, a four year veteran of the force, would have celebrated his 29th birthday this week.  "Jacai had an infectious smile, he lit up a room," according to FOP President Zeek Teletchea, who called him a "cop's cop" and personal friend. Police say two suspects launched an attack on the police station in...

A woman who allegedly barely avoided a head-on collision on a Florida expressway believes that a young deputy, who died in the highway crash, put his life on the line to save her. At about 2:45 a.m. Saturday, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call reporting a driver heading west in an eastbound lane of the Leroy Selmon Expressway, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. A Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office Deputy, John Robert Kotfila, Jr., had just left a traffic crash investigation and was driving east on the Expressway in his marked patrol car when he and the...

  Published March 02, 2016 FoxNews.com A Texas police officer died Tuesday from an injury sustained in a shooting with an armed suspect near a Dallas-area park. Euless Police Chief Mike Brown said the suspect also died of multiple gunshot wounds in the shootout, which occurred around 3 p.m. at J.A. Carr Park. According to the New York Post, the officer was identified as David Hofer. Hofer was a former NYPD officer. Hofer and others encountered the gunman who was shooting erratically at officers. Authorities fired at the suspect and killed him, the Post reported. The suspect’s identity has not been...

(Photo: Courtesy: NYPD) EULESS — A Euless officer and a suspect have been pronounced dead after the pair exchanged gunfire at J.A. Carr Park Tuesday afternoon. The slain officer was identified as 29-year-old David Hofer Tuesday night. “This agency and this community will not forget David's servant heart and his dry wit,” said Euless Police Chief Mike Brown in a press conference Tuesday night. “We ask for respect in consideration for the families and the Euless Police Department family at this time.” Few details of the events that led to Hofer's death. Chief Brown said much more information will be released on...

There were still 200 or 300 other people in the factory and that the 'shooter wasn't done by any means' By Roxana Hegeman and Maria FisherAssociated PressHESSTON, Kan. — A man who wounded three people before storming into the central Kansas factory where he worked and shooting 15 others, killing three of them, had just been served a protection from abuse order that likely triggered the attack, a sheriff said Friday.The attack Thursday evening at the Excel Industries lawnmower parts plant in Hesston ended when a police officer killed the attacker during a shootout, Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said....