Cops: Delaware trooper fatally shoots boyfriend in domestic incident
When police arrived at the home, officers found the off-duty trooper "severely battered" and the boyfriend suffering a gunshot wound to his upper torso.
Authorities are investigating a domestic incident in which an off-duty Delaware State Police trooper shot and killed her boyfriend.
Officers were called to a home on the 3200 block of Champions Drive in Pike Creek, New Castle County, shortly after 11 p.m. Sunday for a report of shots fired, police said.
At the home, officers found the off-duty trooper "severely battered" and the boyfriend suffering a gunshot wound to his upper torso, police said.
Officials said the pair had a physical altercation and the trooper ultimately shot the boyfriend, identified as 43-year-old Maurice Ifill, of Owings Mills, Md., with her service weapon.
Ifill was taken to Christiana Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Authorities did not release the trooper's name but said she was an eight-year veteran of the state police. She was hospitalized in stable condition
The incident was the second time in recent weeks in which a female off-duty police officer in the region was involved in a domestic-related shooting.
In mid-April, a Philadelphia police officer shot and wounded her husband in the driveway of their Bucks County home. That shooting was ruled self-defense, and the husband is facing charges of stalking and simple assault.