FILE - Police officers from Bristol, Conn. gather with other towns at the scene where two police officers killed, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, in Bristol, Conn. The deaths of two Connecticut police officers and the wounding of a third during an especially violent week for police across the U.S. fit into a grim pattern, law enforcement experts say. Even as the number of officers has dropped in the past two years, the number being targeted and killed has risen. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Officers Shot Connecticut
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A joint funeral service for two Connecticut police officers shot to death in an apparent ambush is expected to draw scores of law enforcement officials from around the country. The service for Bristol officers Dustin DeMonte and Alex Hamzy will be held Friday at Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field — the University of Connecticut’s 40-,000-seat football stadium in East Hartford. DeMonte, Hamzy and Officer Alec Iurato were shot on Oct. 12 in what police believe was an ambush by the shooter, Nicholas Brutcher. Iurato survived and killed Brutcher with a single gunshot. Brutcher’s brother, Nathan, also was shot and survived. A motive for the shooting has not been disclosed.
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