BOSTON (AP) – A man wearing body armor and armed with an assault rifle shot two Boston police officers who were responding to a report of a domestic disturbance, before being shot and killed by other officers, police said.
The wounded officers were in “extremely critical condition” but out of surgery and with their families on Thursday morning, Police Commissioner William Evans said.
“Domestic calls, as you know, are probably the most volatile. You never really know what you’re walking into,” Evans said. “And I think we see right now the dangers of our job.”
The suspect was identified as Kirk Figueroa, 33, of East Boston.
Evans said Figueroa fired at the officers late Wednesday night shortly after they arrived at a home in the city’s East Boston neighborhood. Several other officers who were stationed outside ran inside and exchanged gunfire with the suspect.