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00:00The alarming attacks on police just outside New York City, an officer has been shot in the face.

00:04Also, the disturbing attack in Ohio, one of the officers, has now died. Here's Pierre Thomas.

00:10On New York's Long Island this morning, a Suffolk County police officer was shot in the face

00:15while investigating the discovery of a dead body. The suspect, 48-year-old Neves Reyes,

00:20is accused of killing the other man who was found in the brush. When police tried executing a search

00:26warrant, they say Reyes fired multiple shots from inside the home, hitting the officer who is

00:31expected to recover. The incident comes after three officers were shot in Lorain, Ohio, Wednesday,

00:37ambushed with a barrage of gunfire while they were simply trying to have lunch.

00:41We are shot, fired. There's no extension. And everybody.

00:47Officers Philip Wagner and Peter Gale were in separate cruisers parked on a dead-end street,

00:52eating pizza, when the suspect opened fire with a high-powered rifle. Officer Wagner later dying

00:58of his injuries. He was lying in wait. Responding law enforcement met with a hail of gunfire.

01:03A third officer, Brett Payne, also shot. And the suspect identified as 28-year-old Michael Joseph

01:10Parker killed at the scene. Video showing two rifles amid the contents of the suspect's silver sedan.

01:16Police say they also found handguns, loaded magazines, and a significant quantity of

01:21homemade explosives inside. Residents stunned. It's crazy. It's dangerous where we live in.

01:28According to the Fraternal Order of Police, there have been 36 ambush attacks on law enforcement so

01:33far this year. 45 officers shot, eight killed. Tonight, we add one more name to the following.

01:40David. Pierre Thomas on this in Washington. Pierre, thank you.