Legislation to name post office for Bashioum headed to president’s desk
A proposal to name the Canonsburg post office in memory of a slain borough police officer is headed to the president’s desk for his signature.
The House of Representatives this week approved the measure, which would name the U.S. Post Office on West Pike Street in Canonsburg the “Police Officer Scott Bashioum Post Office Building.”
The members of Pennsylvania Senate delegation – Democrat Bob Casey and Republican Pat Toomey – introduced the bill last year. President Trump is expected to sign the bill.
The seven-year veteran of the department was killed while responding to a domestic violence call on Nov. 10, 2016.
Bashioum, 52, died less than an hour after Michael Cwiklinski shot him from a house on Woodcrest Drive. Cwiklinski, 47, ambushed Bashioum and other officers as they answered an early morning report of a disturbance at the home, also wounding Bashioum’s colleague, James Saieva.
Cwiklinski also killed his estranged wife, 28-year-old Dalia Sabae, during the chain of events that ended with Cwiklinski fatally shooting himself.
Sabae was three months pregnant.
Bashioum was assistant chief of Slovan Fire Department. He’d previously retired as a senior master sergeant after spending 29 years in the U.S. Air Force.
The former Central Avenue Bridge in Canonsburg was renamed in Bashioum’s honor on the one-year anniversary of his death.