Philadelphia Officer Killed in Weekend Ambush Leaves Behind Wife and Two Young Children — A Community Mourns
A Philadelphia police officer killed in “a brutal, senseless, horrific” ambush in which a colleague was also sH๏τ 12 times was a married father of two young children, his department said.
Shane Seiber, 40, was sH๏τ three times and died later in the hospital after responding to reports of an armed man on a porch early Saturday morning in West Philadelphia.
“He fought valiantly, but he lost his life today,” Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel told a news conference later Saturday
He described the shooting as “a brutal, senseless, horrific killing.”
Seiber, who died in the hospital surrounded by his wife and family, leaves behind a daughter, 3, and a son, 7, according to police.
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A Philadelphia police officer killed in “a brutal, senseless, horrific” ambush in which a colleague was also sH๏τ 12 times was a married father of two young…