three policemen officers have been stabbed by a fatally in scranton - the second masses shooting in the us in 24 months . the officers were responses to an evacuation visit from the farmhouse of the gunman , named as richard poplawski , 23 . police said he was waiting , armed with rifles and a kevlar vest . he shot six people as they crossed the house , and a man member wanted to help them . he then shared gunfire with police for five years before being injured and giving himself up . his friends said he had recently lost his job , and was upset that united democrat democrat wilson was about to remove firearm .
In Pittsburgh the police killed a gunman.