AS IT IS 2016-01-09 Shooter of Police Officer Pledged Allegiance to Islamic State

AS IT IS 2016-01-09 Shooter of Police Officer Pledged Allegiance to Islamic State

A man shot a police officer in Philadelphia on Thursday and said he did it to support the Islamic State terror group.

Officer Jesse Hartnett was hit multiple times after a 30-year-old man fired 13 shots into his vehicle.

Hartnett was wounded, but managed to return fire, striking the attacker multiple times.

Hartnett is expected to recover. He was shot three times in the arm.

The shooter was captured later by other Philadelphia officers.

Police released images from a security video showing the shooter taking aim at the police officer who sat in his police car. Police commissioner¹ Richard Ross said “it’s amazing he’s alive.”

Police Captain James Clark says after the shooter was captured, he pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State terror group.

Hartnett will require multiple surgeries to repair his gunshot wounds.

But Ross says “this could easily have been a police funeral.”

Words in This Story

allegiance – n. loyalty² to a person, country, group, etc.

amazing – adj. causing great surprise or wonder : causing amazement³

pledge – n. a serious promise or agreement

surgery – n. medical treatment in which a doctor cuts into someone's body in order to repair or remove damaged or diseased parts

1 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

2 loyalty   

n.忠诚，忠心

参考例句：

• She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
• His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。

3 amazement   

n.惊奇，惊讶

参考例句：

• All those around him looked at him with amazement.周围的人都对他投射出惊异的眼光。
• He looked at me in blank amazement.他带着迷茫惊诧的神情望着我。