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Police officer wounded in Philadelphia airport shooting released from hospital as search continues for those who injured him, fatally shot another

Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford said that while seeing Ortiz released from the hospital is a “happy day,” the officer’s “mind and heart are going to need some time to heal.”

As Philadelphia Police Officer Raul Ortiz, 60, is discharged from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Saturday afternoon, fellow officers stand and salute him. Ortiz was shot in the arm at the Terminal D parking garage at the Philadelphia International Airport on Thursday night. His partner, Officer Richard Mendez, 50, was killed as they attempted to stop a group of people attempting to break into a car, police said.
As Philadelphia Police Officer Raul Ortiz, 60, is discharged from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Saturday afternoon, fellow officers stand and salute him. Ortiz was shot in the arm at the Terminal D parking garage at the Philadelphia International Airport on Thursday night. His partner, Officer Richard Mendez, 50, was killed as they attempted to stop a group of people attempting to break into a car, police said.Read moreTyger Williams / Staff Photographer
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