The shooting happened when the officer responded to a disturbance call, officials said.

An Ohio police officer investigating a call about a disturbance at a home was shot and killed Saturday night in what authorities described as an “ambush” by a suspected shooter who was found dead Sunday.

The shooting occurred shortly before 10 p.m. local time in a residential neighborhood in Euclid, Ohio, about 15 miles northeast of Cleveland, said Capt. Mitchell Houser, a department spokesman. Euclid Police Department, in a statement.

Houser said officers were called to a residence to investigate a disturbance.

“While police were investigating, an armed man ambushed a police officer, striking him with a gun,” Houser said.

The mortally wounded officer was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Houser said.

The slain officer was identified as Jacob Derbin, according to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost.

At a news conference Sunday afternoon, officials said Derbin’s father was an active Euclid police officer.

“Officer Derbin was proudly sworn into the Euclid Police Department on July 24, 2023,” a police statement said. “During his brief time with the department, he served the residents and business owners of Euclid, as well as his fellow officers with dedication, honor and professionalism. His kind heart and huge smile were contagious. The world was better with him and he will be desperately missed by all who knew him.”

Authorities launched a search for the suspect, identified by police as Deshawn Anthony Vaughn, 24, but said he was found shot to death Sunday afternoon at a home in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Police have not said whether Vaughn was killed by police or if the shooting was self-inflicted.

The motive for the shooting remains under investigation.

The shooting came just hours after three Atlanta police officers were shot while responding to a call Saturday evening, officials said. The officers were shot after being called to investigate an armed man, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said at a news conference.

The unidentified officers encountered the suspect, who was apparently armed with a handgun and a knife when shots rang out, Schierbaum said.

On April 29, four members of a U.S. Marshals fugitive task force were killed and four others injured in a shooting that broke out in Charlotte, North Carolina, as they attempted to executed active arrest warrants for a suspect identified as 39-year-old Terry. Clark Hughes Jr., who was killed in the shooting, according to police.

At least 58 law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty so far this year, including 22 who died as a result of gunfire, according to the nonprofit Officer Down Memorial Page.

In 2023, 136 federal, state, and local law enforcement officers died in the line of duty, compared to 224 officers in 2022, a decrease of nearly 40%.

— ABC News’ Darren Reynolds contributed to this report.