EBENSBURG — A trooper will receive the Pennsylvania State Police Medal of Honor for wounding a drunken-driving suspect who killed another trooper in a November 2002 shootout.

Trooper Brian Lampel, 37, of the Ebensburg barracks, will receive the award today in Hershey. Lampel twice shot Mark Leach, of New Germany, after he refused to surrender and began shooting at troopers following a traffic accident on Nov. 9, 2002 in Ebensburg.

Trooper Joseph Sepp, 34, was shot and killed. Leach, who is now 52, is serving a life sentence for Sepp's murder.