Officer Duarte had just celebrated his 30th birthday on Feb. 17, less than a week before Saturday’s shooting, according to the York County Coroner’s Office. He had been a West York police officer since June 2022 after serving five years with the Denver Police Department in Colorado.

An autopsy concluded his death was caused by being shot in the torso on Saturday inside UPMC Memorial Hospital in York. Andrew Duarte, 30, was declared dead shortly after noon that day at a