The Denver Police Department is mourning the loss of a former DPD officer killed in a shootout with a gunman in Pennsylvania Saturday.

West York Borough Police say the officer died in a shooting at the UPMC Memorial Hospital. The gunman is also dead, authorities say.

A former Denver police officer was killed in a shootout Saturday while confronting an armed hostage-taker at a Pennsylvania hospital. Andrew Duarte worked as a patrol officer in Denver from 2017 to 2022 and participated in the Denver Police Department’s DUI Enforcement Unit, police wrote in a statement.

Two former Ocean City police officers were killed in separate shootings over the weekend, one in Virginia and another in Pennsylvania, the Ocean City Police Department said Sunday.

Authorities say a shooter entered UPMC Memorial Hospital's ICU and took staff members hostage before he was killed by police in a shootout.

Officer Andrew Duarte was killed while responding to the shooting and hostage situation at UPMC Memorial Hospital on Saturday.

A 49-year-old gunman was shot and killed by police after they said he held multiple UPMC staff members hostage and shot multiple people.

An officer was killed, and six others were injured after a man armed with a pistol and zip ties entered into a Pennsylvania hospital's intensive care unit Saturday afternoon. Police were called to UPMC Memorial Hospital on Innovation Drive and Roosevelt Avenue in York County, Pittsburgh Action News 4's sister station WGAL reported.