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The suspect, 24-year-old Matthew James Ruth, was killed by police after opening fire from a cornfield in rural York County.

The Wednesday shooting marked one of Pennsylvania’s deadliest days for law enforcement this century, prompting community-wide mourning and processions.

NORTH CODORUS, Pa. — Police returning to a home in the rolling farmland of southern Pennsylvania in search of a stalking suspect who may have been trespassing encountered a barrage of gunfire that left three of them dead and two more wounded.

All three slain officers and a fourth who remains hospitalized worked for the Northern York County Regional Police Department, which called Wednesday a “dark and heartb

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