8 years ago two Topeka police officers made the ultimate sacrifice

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - It was eight years today that two Topeka Police Officers were killed in the line of duty.

Officers David Gogian and Jeff Atherly were reporting a suspicious vehicle in a grocery store parking lot on SW Huntoon Street in Topeka when someone opened fire on the officers from the vehicle.

A social media post on the Topeka Police Department's Facebook page read, "Not a day goes by that we don't remember the ultimate sacrifice they each made."

The man who shot the officers barricaded himself in a home after fleeing the scene. He was shot and killed while leaving the home with a gun in his hands.

Officer Atherly, 29, had only been a police officer for a year and a half when he was shot and killed, while Officer Gogian, 50, had been an officer for eight years.