New York crime crisis: Rochester police officer killed in shooting, another injured
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A Rochester police officer was shot and killed while on duty Thursday night and another officer and a woman were injured in the attack.
Officers are pictured outside a hospital after one officer was shot and killed and another was injured in a shooting in Rochester, New York, on Thursday, July 21, 2022. (WHAM) Police are seen investigating after two Rochester officers where injured in a shooting. One of the officers died from their injuries. (WHAM) A Rochester, New York, police officer was shot and killed and another was injured on July 21, 2022. (WHAM) A large police presence is seen in Rochester, New York, after two police officers were shot in the line of duty. One of the officers died from their injuries. (WHAM) Caution tape ropes off the scene of a fatal shooting were one police officer was killed and another was injured in Rochester, New York, on Thursday, July 21, 2022. (WHAM)
Smith called the deadly shooting a "cowardly ambush," and said Mazurkiewicz and Seng "fell victim to the very violence in our community that we are trying to combat."
Mazurkiewicz was shot at least once in the upper body and passed away after being transported to a local hospital, Smith said. Seng was shot at least once in the lower body and has been released from the hospital to recover at home with his wife and children.