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Philadelphia officer killed, second shot 12 times responding to gun call

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Officer Shane Seiber, 40, died after being shot three times early Saturday in West Philadelphia; a second officer, 33, was hit 12 times and is stable. Officers from the 19th District had responded around 12:20 a.m. to a report of an armed man on a porch. The gunman fled, fired at other officers, and was found and arrested in a tree. A shotgun and two handguns, one taken from a wounded officer, were recovered.

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