2025 North Codorus Township shooting
On September 17, 2025, a man opened fire on police officers serving an arrest warrant at a farm house in North Codorus Township, Pennsylvania, United States, killing three and injuring two others before being fatally shot by police.
Shooting
At around 2:10p.m. a man opened fire on police officers who were serving a court order at a farm house on Haar Road near Spring Grove; he used an AR-15–style rifle that had a suppressor. This came after officers filed the affidavit and requested a warrant be issued for the arrest of the suspect on stalking, loitering and prowling at night, and criminal trespass charges. A resident said he heard about 30 shots and saw someone lying on the ground while officers seemed to be searching for someone inside of a barn. Authorities described the shooting as domestic-related. Following the standoff, a shelter-in-place warning was issued until a few hours after the shooting. Police kept people away from the scene, with about 30 police vehicles blocking off roads bordered by a barn, a goat farm and soybean and corn fields.Victims
Three officers from the Northern York Regional Police Department – Detective Sergeant Cody Becker, Detective Mark Baker, and Detective Isaiah Emenheiser – were killed in the ambush. Another Northern York Regional Police Department detective and a deputy from the York County Sheriff's Office were injured. The injured officers are in critical but stable condition. At least one officer was evacuated by air medical services. The perpetrator was fatally shot by the police.Perpetrator
A law enforcement official identified the perpetrator as 24-year-old Matthew James Ruth of Hanover, Pennsylvania. Ruth lived in the Hanover area throughout his entire life, and resided in neighboring Penn Township at the time of the shooting.In an affidavit of probable cause, officers wrote that they were called to the North Codorus Township home on the night of the shooting, for a resident reporting a white male was on a female victim's property and was looking into the residence's window with binoculars. Officers from the Northern York County Regional Police Department immediately advised that the resident could see the man from a short distance, who she said was wearing camouflage, standing in the driveway of the home, according to the affidavit. Northern York officers responded to the home, and were unable to locate the man, but managed to find a black 2000 Ford Ranger parked along the road near a line of the woods. Investigators spoke with the resident's daughter, who told them in a September 11 interview that, on August 20, an unidentified individual set her pick-up truck on fire while the vehicle sat in the home's driveway, but police say the woman who made the complaint later identified that man as Ruth, her ex-boyfriend. Documents also confirmed that a fire investigator responded to the residence on September 13, and determined the fire was intentionally set by Ruth.