A veteran Florida police officer was shot and killed while on duty early Sunday by a man described as transient, according to law enforcement officials, who gave no motive for the suspect now charged with murder.
Officer Charles Kondek, 45, was gunned down in Tarpon
Springs, about 30 miles northwest of Tampa, after responding to a call for
service around 2 a.m. EST, the Tarpon Springs Police Department said.
The officer later died of his injuries at a local hospital,
the police department said.
His death followed a Saturday afternoon shooting in New York
City, where a gunman shot dead two police officers and then killed himself.
Authorities said that shooter had indicated on social media that he might seek
revenge for recent U.S. police killings of unarmed black men.
In the Florida case, police said they arrested Marco Antonio
Parilla Jr., 23, on a charge of first-degree murder.
Parilla was taken into custody after fleeing the shooting scene and
crashing into a pole and another vehicle, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office
said in a release.
Charles Kondek
Marco Antonio Parilla Jr., 23, was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly killing Kondek.
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