A funeral service will be held later this week for the Pennsylvania police officer fatally shot while responding to a hospital intensive care unit where a gunman had shot three workers and taken

A police officer died and others were injured in what local officials described a hostage crisis involving a man with a gun and zip ties.

Officer Duarte had just celebrated his 30th birthday on Feb. 17, less than a week before Saturday’s shooting, according to the York County Coroner’s Office. He had been a West York police officer since June 2022 after serving five years with the Denver Police Department in Colorado.