Firefighter fatally shot bringing aid to Maryland resident, suspect arrested

Firefighter fatally shot bringing aid to Maryland resident, suspect arrested

One firefighter was dead and a additional was alarmingly blood-soaked on Friday by battery at a Maryland abode breadth the brace had answered a medical ache call, and the doubtable who accursed on them from central the home was in custody, admiral said.

The firefighters were responding to a alarm in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Temple Hills, the Prince George's County Fire Administration said.

Both firefighters were in analytical action and transported to breadth hospitals afterward the black shooting. One firefighter succumbed to his injuries after on Friday. The additional firefighter, a volunteer, was in austere action and ability surgery.

While data of the adventure were still beneath investigation, the firefighters accustomed at the home in the black to conduct a accepted abundance analysis on a citizen prompted by a anxious neighbor, the administration said.

"The citizen in the home was not acknowledging so a accommodation was fabricated to accretion access to the home and analysis on that person's welfare," Prince George's County Badge Chief Hank Stawinski told reporters.

"As that was unfolding, the alone central the home accursed a amount of rounds, arresting two Prince George's County firefighters and the anxious alone who had led accessible assurance to that address," Stawinski said.

The noncombatant was not actively injured, he said. No badge admiral accursed weapons. After battlefront several rounds, the being central the abode accomplished he was battlefront at accessible assurance admiral and chock-full shooting, he said. (Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle; Editing by Leslie Adler, Richard Chang, Bernard Orr and Michael Perry) Open in New Window Download Story Add to Collection (crime) Share via Email Print Date04/16/2016 09:30 AM Word Count267 Copyright(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2016. Click For Restrictions - http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp Source News FeedsReuters America Wire,Target Abomination IDtag:reuters.com,0000:newsml_L2N17J01E:1758456758

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