Local residents speak at memorial for fallen Canonsburg officer
Several people brought flowers, balloons, stuffed animals and lit candles to the Canonsburg Municipal Building on Thursday in memory of Scott Leslie Bashioum.
Bashioum, 52, was declared dead of a gunshot wound at Canonsburg Hospital at 4:10 a.m. Thursday by Washington County Coroner Tim Warco. The wounded officer, whose name has not been released, was flown to Allegheny General Hospital and officials said he was in stable condition.
Bashioum and the other officer were responding to a domestic dispute on Woodcrest Drive shortly after 3 a.m. Thursday when they were shot. A SWAT team later surrounded a house in the 100 block of Woodcrest and found a man and a woman dead inside. Police have confirmed that the suspect, Michael Cwiklinski, 47, was one of the two found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.