A police officer of Temple University was killed after he was shot in the head while responding to a robbery near the Philadelphia campus on Saturday night, according to officials.
The university said the officer was trying to arrest a suspect linked to the robbery of a convenience store near the campus, at 1700 W. Montgomery Avenue, when the shooting occurred.
The university sent out an alert shortly after 7 p.m. local time notifying of the shooting. It said in a Twitter post at the time: “Use caution. Avoid the area. Police are responding.”
The officer was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital….