NORTH CODORUS TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WHTM) – Five officers were shot in southern Pennsylvania, state police said Wednesday. Three of the officers had died and two were in the hospital in critical but stable condition as of that evening.
The shooter was also dead, Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris said.
In a press conference Wednesday evening, Paris said state police was not yet releasing the officers’ identities or the agencies they worked for.
“We grieve for the loss of life of three precious souls who served this county, served this commonwealth, served this country,” Gov. Josh Shapiro said. “This kind of violence is not OK, we need to do better as a society.”
Ted Czech with the York County Office of Emergency Management said a 911 call came in at 2:10 p.m. ET for an incident in the areas of Haar Road and Senft Road in North Codorus Township, near the Pennsylvania-Maryland state line. The officers were following up on an investigation that began on Tuesday, Paris said, but wouldn’t provide more specifics.
Emergency personnel respond to a shooting involving police, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, in North Codorus, Pa. (AP Photo/Mark Scolforo)
A source told WHTM that authorities were working to serve a warrant, but no additional details were available.
Lt. Governor Austin Davis, as well as Congressmen Lloyd Smucker and Scott Perry, called for prayers for those involved.
The Spring Grove Area School District issued a shelter-in-place order, though it said schools and students were not involved in the shooting. The district said in a statement that authorities “advised us to hold students and staff in our buildings as a precaution while several area roads are closed.” The order has since been lifted.
The Consulate of Mexico in Philadelphia said in a social media post that they were “monitoring the incident” in Pennsylvania and advised Mexican residents nearby to follow official instructions. A spokesperson for the Mexican consulate in Philadelphia said the post was “only a precautionary alert for our community.
The incident is unfolding on a rural road that winds through an agricultural area with a red barn and farm fields. The region of south-central Pennsylvania is an apple-growing area that attracts migrant farm workers, many of them from Mexico.
The Associated Press contributed to this developing report.
