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Lorain police officer Phillip Wagner was remembered as a hard-working family man and a fair officer. Wagner was fatally wounded when a shooter ambushed him and two colleagues with a high-powered rifle.
Officials have announced that the memorial service for Lorain Police Department Officer Phillip C. Wagner, who was killed during an ambush, will take place July 30 at Rocket Arena in Cleveland.
LORAIN, Ohio (WOIO) - Investigators say shooting suspect Michael Joseph Parker, 28, of North Lakeview Boulevard, in Lorain was found with multiple high-powered rifles, handguns and large amounts of an explosive called Tannerite.
Authorities late Wednesday searched the home of a shooter who wounded three Lorain police officers, critically injuring two of them in an ambushed attack.
The gunman accused of ambushing three Lorain police officers had previously been cited by the officer killed following a 2022 crash.
The funeral arrangements Lorain Police Officer Phillip Wagner have been announced. Ofc. Wagner died Thursday from injuries sustained in an ambush shooting Wednesday afternoon.