{"id":4577,"date":"2016-11-10T18:24:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T23:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2016-11-10T18:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T23:25:55","slug":"canonsburg-ambush-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2016\/11\/10\/canonsburg-ambush-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Canonsburg ambush shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Canonsburg police officer was shot to death and another wounded when they were ambushed while answering a domestic call early this morning in the Washington County borough.<\/p>\n

About six hours later, Special Response Units from the surrounding area found a man and a woman dead inside a duplex at 120 Woodcrest Drive shortly before 9 a.m., according to state police. The man had fatal self-inflicted injuries, according to police.<\/p>\n

It was unclear if one of them was the shooter; their identities have not been released. Post-Gazette news partner KDKA-TV reported that one is the shooting suspect and the other a pregnant relative.<\/p>\n

The scene unfolded early this morning when the officers responded to a call of a domestic disturbance at 3:14 a.m. at the duplex and were \u201dambushed upon their arrival,\u201d said state police Trooper Melinda Bonderanka.<\/p>\n

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Two officers reported shot & SWAT situation in Canonsburg. Part of the scene is on Bluff Avenue near West Pike Street . (Darrell Sapp\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The investigation continues at the scene were two officers were ambushed as they responded to a domestic situation. (Darrell Sapp\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The investigation continues at the scene were two officers were ambushed as they responded to a domestic situation. (Darrell Sapp\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Officers<\/a>
Officers on the scene of a shooting in Canonsburg in which two police officers were shot. Their conditions were not immediately known. (KDKA-TV)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Canonsburg police vehicle is park in the Allegheny General Hospital Emergency Trauma Center ambulance entrance Thursday, Nov. 11, 2016. (Nate Guidry\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"John<\/a>
John Kelemen, of Canonsburg, kneels to pay respect for Canonsburg Officer Scott Bashioum. John met Officer Bashioum last year before Christmas when his father-in-law past away at home. The make shift memorial is in front of the Canonsburg municipal building on Pike Street. (Darrell Sapp\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A toy car and message left at a memorial in front of the Canonsburg Municipal Building. (Darrell Sapp\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Shenandoah<\/a>
Shenandoah Frederick, of Canonsburg, comforts her daughter, Miranda, 7, while paying respects to a fallen police officer after a shooting during a domestic incident on November 10, 2016. (Andrew Rush\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Canonsburg<\/a>
Canonsburg police Officer Scott Bashioum, in uniform above, was shot to death early this morning when he and another officer responded to a domestic disturbance in the borough. (KDKA-TV)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Gianna<\/a>
Gianna Cafeo, 5, of Canonsburg, came to the Canonsburg Borough Building with her father Joe to pay their respects to a fallen police officer after a shooting in Canonsburg on November 10, 2016. (Andrew Rush\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Canonsburg police officer was shot to death and another wounded when they were ambushed while answering a domestic call early this morning in the Washington County borough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":4583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[41],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/11\/20161110arPoliceShooting01.jpg?fit=2600%2C1841&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4613,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions\/4613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}