On a Sunday evening in April, a follow-up to a high-speed chase in Syracuse, New York, ended in an ambush that killed two officers. Onondaga County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Micheal Hoosock, 37, had responded to a Salina residence where the suspect’s vehicle had been traced. Officers reported seeing firearms in the vehicle and hearing a firearm being manipulated inside the house as they set a perimeter.

Lieutenant Hoosock was positioned in the backyard of a neighboring property when 33-year-old Christopher Murphy emerged and opened fire with an illegally modified AR-15 style rifle. Hoosock was fatally wounded before he could return fire. Syracuse Police Officer Michael Jensen was also killed during a subsequent exchange; Murphy was later killed by return fire. The New York State Attorney General’s office found the officers’ use of deadly force justified, and a toxicology report showed Murphy had alcohol and cocaine in his system.

Hoosock was a 16-year veteran of the sheriff’s office, a volunteer firefighter and paramedic, a husband and father of three young children. Does anyone have memories of Lieutenant Hoosock or information about the incident that could shed further light on the events that night?