The officer who died responding to a gunman at UPMC Memorial Hospital in February was hit by police fire, a prosecutor said.

Friendly fire took the life of a West York Police officer in the UPMC Memorial Hospital shooting that happened earlier this year

With the investigation into the hostage situation at UPMC Memorial officially concluded, the mother of 29-year-old West York Police officer Andrew Duarte, who was killed in the incident, said their family has “an opportunity to now walk forward in other ways.