Two Topeka Officers Shot Down on Duty

Gogian, left, Atherly, right

Two police officers were killed Sunday night while investigating a suspected drug deal, in Topeka, Kansas.

Corporal David Gogian, fifty, and Officer Jeff Atherly, twenty-nine, approached a vehicle in a grocery store parking lot.

As they neared, bullets were fired from a gun, inside the car, striking both officers, and then the vehicle sped off.

Both officers died from head wounds.

Later in the night, Topeka police received a tip to the whereabouts of the shooter, and surrounded the house.

Twenty-two year old David Tiscareno refused to come out, and police lobbed tear gas inside.

Tiscareno then came out, but would not drop his gun.

At least one of the officers fired and struck Tiscareno, who was declared dead on arrival, at the hospital.

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