3 officers wounded after gunman opens fire in ‘ambush situation’ in Ohio, police say

An armed man lying in wait on a dead-end street shot and wounded two Ohio police officers when they parked their patrol vehicles in an undeveloped industrial park to eat lunch Wednesday, and an officer driving into the scene in response to their call for help also was shot and seriously injured, officials said.

The shooter “was shot on scene and was pronounced deceased,” said Michael Failing, the acting police chief in Lorain, about 25 miles west of Cleveland. The man “had an arsenal of weapons with him,” said Failing, who did not share further details on that and noted that the available information about the shooting was preliminary.

James Welsh, the police chief in nearby Elyria whose department is investigating what happened, told reporters earlier that Lorain officers were ambushed by a man firing a high-powered rifle, and that police returned fire.

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