Bristol cops Dustin Demonte and Alex Hamzy lured into fake 911 call

The two Connecticut cops shot by a deranged gunman Wednesday night were deliberately lured to their deaths by a fake 911 call, state police said Thursday.

« Bristol Police have received a 911 call reporting a possible incident of domestic violence between two siblings at 310 Redstone Hill Road, » police said in a press release posted on Twitter.

« Preliminary information appears to indicate that the 911 call was a deliberate act to lure law enforcement to the scene, » the statement said.

Police have also identified the killer, also shot at the scene, as 35-year-old Nicholas Brutcher.

Her brother, Nathan Brutcher, 32, was injured and remains in St. Francis Hospital.

Police say Nicholas Brutcher was waiting outside when cops arrived at the Bristol home and opened fire, killing Sgt. Dustin Demonte and Officer Alex Hamzy.

A third cop, Officer Alec Iurato, was injured and is undergoing surgery, police said.

Police did not disclose the motive for the deadly attack.

“This is a highly complex ongoing investigation being conducted by detectives from the Connecticut State Police Major Crimes Unit at the request of the state attorney general’s office,” the statement read. Press.

In Bristol on Thursday, police guarded the homes of slain cops.

A massive police motorcade accompanied the bodies of the two officers to the medical examiner’s office, according to a WTIC-TV News report on Thursday.

The officers were described as « two outstanding police officers » by Bristol Police Chief Brian Gould at an emotional press conference early Thursday.

Demonte, 35, was co-recipient of the Officer of the Year award in 2019. He was killed while his wife, Laura, was pregnant with the couple’s third child.

Hamzy, 34, a graduate of Bristol Eastern High School, is survived by his wife, parents and two sisters, police said.