The man who shot and killed a Syracuse cop and a sheriff’s deputy over the weekend before dying from injuries suffered in the exchange of gunfire has been identified as Christopher R. Murphy, officials said.
The Onondaga County District Attorney identified Murphy, a 33-year-old from Salina, as the suspect in the deadly incident Sunday, Syracuse.com reported.
Murphy got into an exchange of gunfire with an officer from the Syracuse Police Department and a deputy with the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office outside of a house in Salina, a suburb of Syracuse, just before 9 p.m.
The officers had followed him to the residence after he refused to pull over during a traffic stop around 7 p.m. in the city’s Tipp Hill neighborhood.
Both officers and Murphy were all hit during the exchange. Murphy later died at the hospital from his injuries.
