Toledo Police Officer Killed In Standoff

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) –  An Ohio police officer and a suspect are dead after an hours-long armed standoff ended in gunfire. Authorities say 24-year-old Toledo Police Officer Brandon Stalker was shot and killed Monday when 27-year-old Christopher Harris emerged from a home with “a firearm in both hands and fired shots in multiple directions.” Police say multiple officers returned fire and shot Harris. Both men were pronounced dead at a hospital. Police Chief George Kral says the standoff started about 4 p.m., when officers noticed a man with warrants out for his arrest in connection to cathedral vandalism smoking outside a home in a residential neighborhood. Officers approached the man, who fled brandishing a firearm and entered a nearby home.