Law enforcement personnel stand near the scene of a shooting Thursday Jan. 18, 2018 in Harrisburg. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)
(Harrisburg) -- A deputy U.S. Marshal from York County was killed, and two police officers were wounded, while serving a warrant in Harrisburg on Thursday morning, Jan. 18.
Officers went to the area of South 18th and Mulberry streets to serve a warrant before 6:30 a.m. Jan. 18.
The officers went into the home, and the subject of the warrant - Shayla Lynette Towles Pierce - was handcuffed, then gunfire came from the second floor.
A man left the home, gunfire was exchanged, and he was killed. The marshal died, and two officers were injured.
The Marshals Service task force was executing a warrant for the arrest of Pierce, who was wanted by Harrisburg police for terroristic threat offenses. Pierce is in custody.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Christopher D. Hill, 45, of Conewago Township, was killed in the line of duty while serving a warrant Jan. 18 in Harrisburg. (Photo: Submitted)
The officer killed in the gunfire was Deputy U.S. Marshal Christopher David Hill, 45, of Conewago Township, York County. Hill was shot in the chest.
Married, Hill was the father of two, and an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan from 1993-1996.
State Sen. Mike Regan, who served as U.S. Marshal in Harrisburg until his retirement in 2011, said Hill was part of the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group, an elite, nationwide SWAT-style tactical arm of the agency.
"At a moment's notice, he might be gone, anywhere in the country," handling prisoner transport or security for high-profile criminal cases, Regan said. "He was probably as tactically sound as anybody in the country."
Officer Jeffrey Cook (Photo courtesy: Harrisburg Bureau of Police)
This undated photo provided by the Dauphin County Judicial Center shows Shayla Pierce, arrested Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. Law enforcement officers serving an arrest warrant were handcuffing Pierce on the first floor of a home Thursday when a man began firing from the second floor, killing Deputy U.S. Marshal Christopher David Hill and injuring a police officer, authorities said, before the gunman was shot to death by police when he exited the home. (Dauphin County Judicial Center via AP)
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