When state troopers Joseph Perechinsky and William Jenkins were tasked Thursday morning with checking on a call of shots fired at a home in rural northeastern Pennsylvania, they had no idea about the danger they were driving toward.

A 61-year-old man fatally shot a neighbor in rural Pennsylvania then ambushed responding state troopers, wounding two, police said.

State police asked the public to avoid the area of Route 171 north of Thompson. Two state troopers have been shot.