Officers Represent Bucks County At Funeral Of Fallen PA Police Chief

PITTSBURGH, PA — Police from the Warrington and Middletown Township police departments
represented Bucks County this week at the funeral services for fallen Brackenridge Police Chief Justin McIntire, who was shot and killed in the line of duty on Monday, January 2.

The officers traveled to western Pennsylvania with several motor units and members of the honor guard to assist with the funeral services and to honor Chief McIntire.

More than 1,000 police officers from around the state attended the funeral held at Mount St. Peter Church in New Kensington. They were joined by hundreds of family, friends and political leaders who paid respect to the man all called a hero.

(Warrington Township Police Department)

Chief Justin McIntire, 46, died in a shooting near 6th Avenue and Morgan Street in Brackenridge. The suspect, Aaron Lamont Swan, 28, died later in an encounter with police in Pittsburgh's Homewood section. Another officer was wounded in the initial shooting.

Police were seeking Swan for a probation violation. After the Brackenridge shooting, he allegedly carjacked a vehicle that he drove to Pittsburgh before the police shootout.

"I am literally broken," wrote McIntire's widow, Ashley, on Facebook. "I just want someone to tell me this nightmare is over. My best friend, my person, my entire world gone in the blink of an eye. I’m not sure how I can do this so-called life without you. I can’t even put into words how great of a person my husband was."