Cleveland off-duty cop killed in apparent New Year’s Eve carjacking

Cleveland police officer Shane Bartek, 25, had not too long ago joined the pressure in August 2019.
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A 25-year-old off-duty cop was shot and killed in an obvious carjacking in Cleveland, Ohio on New Yr’s Eve, police mentioned.

The Cleveland Police Division named Officer Shane Bartek, who joined the pressure in August 2019, because the sufferer.

By Saturday morning, two suspects — a 28-year-old man and an 18-year-old girl — have been in custody, Fox 8 Information reported. Each have lengthy rap sheets for theft, theft and housebreaking, in accordance with experiences.

Cops mentioned the male suspect was carrying a gun as he approached Bartek in an residence constructing parking zone in southwest Cleveland round 6 p.m. Friday. After a wrestle, Bartek was shot twice, and the attacker fled within the officer’s automobile.

Bartok was a patrol officer within the fifth District on the town’s northeast aspect.

The assault on Bartek was the most recent in a rash of violent carjackings in Ohio’s second-largest metropolis.

Cleveland police officer Shane Bartek was killed by a male suspect in an obvious carjacking.

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Authorities have captured two suspects with lengthy rap sheets.

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“My coronary heart is aching for the household, for our officers,” incoming Cleveland police chief Wayne Drummond mentioned late Friday. “Mindless. It simply doesn’t make any sense.”

Somber officers from surrounding departments lined the streets early Saturday as Bartek’s physique was taken from Fairview Hospital to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Workplace.