An officer for the Temple University Police Department was shot and killed in Philadelphia Saturday while responding to a robbery, the university said.
The officer was trying to apprehend a suspect in connection with the robbery of a convenience store near campus when the shooting occurred, the university said in a statement to CBS News.
"There are simply no words that can make sense of such a tragedy," the university said in its statement."It tears at our sense of community, and wounds us to our very soul. Temple has lost an officer and hero to senseless violence."
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