Philadelphia police say they have made an arrest of a suspect in an airport parking garage shooting that killed one officer and wounded another last week
In this undated photo released by the Philadelphia Police Department Office of Public Affairs shows Officer Richard Mendez. Mendez was shot and killed and a second officer was wounded when they confronted people breaking into a car at Philadelphia International Airport, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, police said. A suspect has been arrested in an airport parking garage shooting that killed a Philadelphia police officer and injured another last week, authorities said.
Fifty-year-old Officer Richard Mendez, who had been on the force for more than two decades, was shot four times and was pronounced dead at a hospital. Officer Raul Ortiz, a 20-year veteran of the force, was shot once in his arm and was released from the hospital Saturday. It wasn’t clear if any other suspects were wounded in the shooting or how many of them had fired weapons, authorities said. Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford noted that the shooting came only a week after three officers were shot and wounded while responding to a call and called the new shooting “a numb, numb moment for us.”
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