India, Aug. 8 -- When a man named Carmine Faino went berserk with his semiautomatic rifle in rural Pennsylvania Thursday, state troopers arrived on the scene only to be sprayed with bullets at their vehicles. Faino, 61, had already shot a 57-year-old woman, Lori Wasko, who was his neighbor.

The troopers, Joseph Perechinsky and William Jenkins, were dispatched to check the welfare of an individual, and there was additional information about shots being fired, police said.

"Upon their arrival, they were immediately fired upon and ambushed. They are very lucky to be alive," an officer said at a media briefing later.

Trooper Jenkins was more seriously injured, and Perechinsky applied a tourniquet to him.

"Perechinsky was able to commandee...