2022 shooting of police officers in Bristol, Connecticut
fatal shooting of police officers
On October 12, 2022, two police officers of the Bristol Police Department were shot and killed while responding to a domestic dispute in Bristol, Connecticut, United States. Nicholas Brutcher made a fake 9-1-1 call requesting the police and ambushed the three responding officers, Sergeant Dustin DeMonte, Officer Alex Hamzy, and Officer Alec Iurato, with a semi-automatic rifle. Brutcher killed Hamzy and fatally wounded DeMonte before he was then shot and killed by a wounded Iurato. DeMonte and Hamzy were posthumously promoted.
Background
On the evening of October 12, 2022, 35-year-old Nicholas Brutcher and his younger brother Nathan went to a bar in Bristol, Connecticut, where the former intended to perform stand-up comedy at an open mic night. At around 8:30 p.m., Nicholas got into a fight with another man, which spilled out into the bar's parking lot and resulted in the police being called. Officer Harrison Pollock of the Bristol Police Department arrived at the bar at 8:52 p.m., where witnesses pointed out the Brutcher brothers were driving away in a white truck, and pulled them over nearby. Nathan, who was driving the truck, was found to have a suspended driver's license and Pollock had the truck towed. Both men appeared drunk, were highly agitated, and were making rude remarks to officers who had arrived on scene, to the point they both were ticketed for creating a public disturbance. Due to their truck being towed, their mother was called to pick them up, but Nicholas refused and insisted on walking home.
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