Two Springfield police officers were stabbed in a Wednesday afternoon encounter with a person armed with two knives in the Gateway neighborhood before the suspect was shot and killed, according to Springfield police.

A New York City police officer who was among the four people shot and killed by a gunman during a rampage at a Manhattan office tower will be laid to rest Thursday. Officer Didarul Islam, 36, was fatally shot Monday in a midtown building housing the National Football League’s headquarters.