Officer wounded in deadly Philadelphia ambush identified, fundraiser launched

After the tragic situation that happened on the 100 block of North 52nd Street on Saturday, where two officers were ambushed, one of them, Officer Shane Siebert, tragically lost his life earlier this week. And we have not gotten a lot of information about the other officer who was there, except to understand that he had been shot multiple times, 12 times total, and was fighting for his life the police have now released some additional information about that other officer he is officer hector rodriguez i believe that we have um so you're seeing the information on him officer hector rodriguez a 33 year old father of five he was shot 12 times we talked about that before but thankfully he is continuing to fight he has been through multiple surgeries but he is fighting for his life and undergoing treatment that of course is officer Hector Rodriguez his picture has just been released we're doing this and the police are doing this for a couple of reasons one they wanted to give the public an update on the fact that this strong young man continues to fight for his life that he is surrounded by and supported by his family his wife has been spending significant amounts of time at the hospital he is continuing to fight through these multiple surgeries but also the family is going to need additional support and so the police also announcing today the gofundme in support of philadelphia police officer hector rodriguez that is what you are taking a look at now on the screen we will have all of the links that are available this gofundme was created by grace abounds homeschool collective the rodriguez family is a part of that so this is the one if you are looking to be supportive of officer hector rodriguez as so many were for the family of the now deceased officer Shane Siebert this is the way that you would do that we will have it up on our fox29.com website we will continue to share additional information but yeah we wanted to go ahead and update you so that you can continue to support and offer your prayers both to the the speedy recovery of officer Hector Rodriguez who continues to fight but also prayer love and support for his family continuing to fight this battle with him as he undergoes numerous surgeries we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back