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Officer fatally shot, another wounded in Rochester, New York

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A police officer has been fatally shot and and another wounded in Rochester, New York. Authorities say the officers were on patrol as part of a plainclothes tactical unit when they were shot after 9 p.m. Thursday. Police Chief David Smith identified the slain officer as Anthony Mazurkiewicz. Smith said Friday that the two officers were attacked in “a cowardly ambush.” A bystander suffered minor injuries. No arrests have been made. The officers were shot the same day Mayor Malik Evans declared a “gun violence state of emergency” in Rochester.

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