WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Local authorities in the U.S. state of Florida on Sunday confirmed one police officer was shot and killed in Tarpon Springs of the state after responding to an emergency call early in the morning.

The officer, identified as 45-year-old Charles Kondek, was gunned down shortly after 2 a.m., local time, when he was responding to a call for service, the Pinellas County Police Department said in a statement.

Kondek, a 17-year veteran officer, died from wounds at a local hospital. He had served in the Police Department of New York City (NYPD) for more than five years before moving to Tarpon Springs.

The suspect, 23-year-old Marco Antonio Parilla, who fled the scene in a vehicle before crashing into a pole and another vehicle, was detained by the police on charges including first-degree murder, said local sources.

Sunday's shooting came after two NYPD officers were shot and killed in Brooklyn of New York Saturday afternoon by a black gunman, who alleged to seek revenge for the recent police killings of two unarmed black people in New York and Ferguson, Missouri. The motivation of the latest shooting remained unknown pending further investigation.