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http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/18/us/pennsylvania-police-officer-killed/index.html
"Investigators have identified a suspect in the death of a western Pennsylvania police officer who was gunned down during a traffic stop.
Rahmael Sal Holt, 29, shot and killed officer Brian Shaw on Friday, police said.
'Consider Holt armed and dangerous,' the Pennsylvania State Police tweeted.
Brian Shaw had been a patrolman with New Kensington's police department for less than a year when he was killed Friday night, according to police Chief James Klein.
The traffic stop resulted in a foot chase before Shaw, 25, was shot, Klein said.
New Kensington is about 20 miles northeast of Pittsburgh."
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"Shaw played for Slippery Rock University's football team, according to the school athletic department's Twitter page.
'Words can't describe how I feel,' head football coach Shawn Lutz told KDKA.
'He was part of our 2011 and 2013 championship teams.'
Shaw was the team's kicker, Lutz said. The university is about an hour's drive north of Pittsburgh.
'He said he wanted to be a police officer, he was a hard working guy, such a positive young man,' Lutz said of his former player.'Every time I think about Brian, I think of such a positive guy who would be successful at anything he did.'"
Another sad case, recently, where a police officer doing his job, gets killed.
I think it's important to get to the bottom of violence against police officers in the US. Are there systemic problems that are creating a culture of violence against law enforcement? In my opinion there clearly is. Another young, profitable life taken from us far too soon. May God bless and help his family and the colleagues he was taken from.
"Investigators have identified a suspect in the death of a western Pennsylvania police officer who was gunned down during a traffic stop.
Rahmael Sal Holt, 29, shot and killed officer Brian Shaw on Friday, police said.
'Consider Holt armed and dangerous,' the Pennsylvania State Police tweeted.
Brian Shaw had been a patrolman with New Kensington's police department for less than a year when he was killed Friday night, according to police Chief James Klein.
The traffic stop resulted in a foot chase before Shaw, 25, was shot, Klein said.
New Kensington is about 20 miles northeast of Pittsburgh."
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"Shaw played for Slippery Rock University's football team, according to the school athletic department's Twitter page.
'Words can't describe how I feel,' head football coach Shawn Lutz told KDKA.
'He was part of our 2011 and 2013 championship teams.'
Shaw was the team's kicker, Lutz said. The university is about an hour's drive north of Pittsburgh.
'He said he wanted to be a police officer, he was a hard working guy, such a positive young man,' Lutz said of his former player.'Every time I think about Brian, I think of such a positive guy who would be successful at anything he did.'"
Another sad case, recently, where a police officer doing his job, gets killed.
I think it's important to get to the bottom of violence against police officers in the US. Are there systemic problems that are creating a culture of violence against law enforcement? In my opinion there clearly is. Another young, profitable life taken from us far too soon. May God bless and help his family and the colleagues he was taken from.