Last Sunday November 20, 2016, four cops in three states were shot. An unnamed suspect executed a San Antonio, Texas police officer late Sunday morning. The unnamed suspect who shot the officer stalked out police headquarters hours prior of the ambush of Detective Benjamin Marconi, 50 years old, and a 20-year veteran of the force. Four hours later the man is suspected of killing Benjamin Marconi where he sat in his patrol car writing up a traffic ticket at around 11:45 a.m. Marconi was the first of four police officers shot in this unconnected spree.

In St. Louis Missouri, shots fired again. November 20 , Sunday night, at 7:30 p.m, a St, Louis police sergeant was shot in the face twice. He was suspected to survive and was hospitalized in critical condition. The officer’s name has not been released yet, but was married and had three children. Like Marconi, he was a 20-year veteran of the force. Police Chief Sam Dotson said that the officer was driving and an individual made a surprise attack and shot out the police officer’s window. The gunman was shot when he came across a shots fired with other police officers and no other officers were injured.

In Sanibel Florida a similar incident occurred when an officer was sitting in his cop car at at traffic light just before 8 p.m. Officers did fire back at the suspect who was taken into custody. In Gladstone Missouri, an officer did not encounter any life threatening injuries, instead a teen fled from the traffic light. As he was getting chased a handgun was revealed showing a shots fired. Officers had pulled fire and the teen was killed.

A Washington police officer was shot several times this past Wednesday while taking a call to a domestic violence crime. The male officer has not been named yet and was proclaimed dead at 9:13p.m. undergoing emergency surgery. He was the 132nd police officer to be killed on the line of duty according to National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.