Philadelphia Police Officer Shot, Killed After Bank Robbery

Officer Shot, Killed After Bank Robbery

POSTED: 2:38 pm EDT May 3, 2008
PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia police said a veteran police officer was shot and killed in the Port Richmond section of the city on Saturday.

Steven Liczbinski, 40, a 12-year veteran who had just been promoted to sergeant, was shot by at least two men shortly before 11:30 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.

He was responding to a robbery at a Bank of America branch inside the ShopRite at Castor and Aramingo.


The men fled, and Liczbinski confronted them at Almond and Schiller streets about 15 minutes later. was shot multiple times with a high-powered rifle, police said.

"It is my understanding that he was either in the car or had just gotten out of the car at the time he was struck," Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said.

Liczbinski was taken to Temple University Hospital in critical condition, where he died on Saturday afternoon.

The men fled the area and were later spotted by a canine officer responding to the robbery and the report of an officer down. That officer shot and killed one of the men at D and Loudon, police said. The suspect died at the hospital, police said.
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