2 officers shot in Rochester, New York
CBSN
Two police officers were shot Thursday night in the city of Rochester in western New York, authorities said.
Both were hospitalized. The severity of their wounds and the circumstances of the shooting weren't immediately clear.
"This is a tragedy for our community. I'm asking Rochester to pray for these officers and their families," Mayor Malik Evans told reporters near the scene of the shooting.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.