On the night of 12 October 2022 Bristol emergency services received a call alerting them to a domestic dispute between brothers. When they arrived to the address specified they came after fire. Two of the officers, Sgt. Dustin Demonte and Officer Alex Hamzy died. Officer Alec Iurato was injured but survived. The suspect, Nicholas Brutcher, 35, was also killed. His brother, Nathan Brutcher, 32, was injured. It is not clear if he was in any way involved in the attack on the officers.
Now these officers have done nothing but do their jobs - and, sadly, suffered deadly violence in the process, with two of them paying the ultimate price. And this shows that the risk associated with their job is real. So while there are "bad cops" exaggerating or falsifying the risk they may face in one situation or another - and that is a real problem - we should still remember that police officers, fire fighters, ambulance personnel and other first responders live lives in which the distance from ordinary to deadly dangerous is sometimes no more than a couple of steps or a couple of seconds.
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Bristol Police Sgt. Dustin Demonte, Officer Alex Hamzy ambushed responding to fake domestic call, state police say
CBS New York, 13 October 2022