The family is preparing for the officer's funeral

Red Lion, Pa. – A procession with law enforcement officers is planned for the funeral of a police officer of Pennsylvania, who was killed during an attack on a hospital intensive care unit last weekend to save medical staff and patients, who was shot.

Family members, friends and other officers are expected to visit the service for West York Patrolman Andrew Duarte in the Living Word Community Church in Red Lion, Pennsylvania.

The 30 -year -old duarte was killed when he reacted to a man with a weapon who took hostage in the UPMC Memorial Hospital in York, Pennsylvania. The attacker Diogenes Archangel Ortiz (49) was also killed and several others were wounded.

The service from 1 p.m. is closed to the public, but is lived by the church.

Reports about nurses who survived the attack were shared in Facebook posts, whereby details on their injuries and their treatment and the way in which the events have followed those who have experienced through.

Tim Barker, District Prosecutor of York County, said that Erzel-Ortiz has recently participated in contact with the intensive care unit “for a medical purpose in which another person has involved”.

The Duarte, born in Oakland, California, had been working at the West York Police Force since 2022. Before that, he spent five years at the Denver police department in Colorado.

An obituary said he had a degree in criminal judiciary and police science from the California University of Pennsylvania and his interests included photography, guitar, hiking and traveling.

The survivors include his parents and his girlfriend.