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Three police officers were killed after a gunfight in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Sunday and three injured, one critically. The gunman was also killed, and police said they do not believe any other suspects currently threaten the city.
President Obama condemned the shooting and said attacks on police were “attacks against all of us and the rule of law that makes society possible”.
At about 8.40am officers responded to a report of a man with a rifle and wearing black by a convenience store, state police colonel Mike Edmonson told reporters late on Sunday. Two minutes later, shots were reported over police radio, a recording of which was posted online.
“Supposedly a lady came up and said there’s a subject walking with a coat and an assault rifle behind the store,” one officer tells another on the recording, just before a second shouts on the line: “Shots fired, officer down! Shots fired, officer down!”
A gunfight erupted between officers and the suspect, and within minutes it was over, with the gunman dead by a car wash nearby the highway. A chorus of voices on the radio continued: “He is not in sight. Possible sniper.”
Before long, an officer reports: “I’m hit. I’m right in front of it. By the car wash.”
“We believe the person who shot and killed our officers, he is the person who was shot and killed at the scene,” Edmonson said.
Although officials said they did not believe there was a shooter still active in the city, police major Doug Cain said: “We are not ready to say he acted alone.”
By late on Sunday afternoon, police had blocked off an enormous swathe of territory, about a mile in every direction from the scene of the shooting. “The police locked us in, and we just carried on,” she said. “We just kept singing, even though we were afraid.”
Numerous aircraft – both helicopters and airplanes – circled overhead as she talked. “People are frightened,” she said. “It’s a difficult time for the city.”
Source: The Guardian
President Obama condemned the shooting and said attacks on police were “attacks against all of us and the rule of law that makes society possible”.
At about 8.40am officers responded to a report of a man with a rifle and wearing black by a convenience store, state police colonel Mike Edmonson told reporters late on Sunday. Two minutes later, shots were reported over police radio, a recording of which was posted online.
“Supposedly a lady came up and said there’s a subject walking with a coat and an assault rifle behind the store,” one officer tells another on the recording, just before a second shouts on the line: “Shots fired, officer down! Shots fired, officer down!”
A gunfight erupted between officers and the suspect, and within minutes it was over, with the gunman dead by a car wash nearby the highway. A chorus of voices on the radio continued: “He is not in sight. Possible sniper.”
Before long, an officer reports: “I’m hit. I’m right in front of it. By the car wash.”
“We believe the person who shot and killed our officers, he is the person who was shot and killed at the scene,” Edmonson said.
Although officials said they did not believe there was a shooter still active in the city, police major Doug Cain said: “We are not ready to say he acted alone.”
By late on Sunday afternoon, police had blocked off an enormous swathe of territory, about a mile in every direction from the scene of the shooting. “The police locked us in, and we just carried on,” she said. “We just kept singing, even though we were afraid.”
Numerous aircraft – both helicopters and airplanes – circled overhead as she talked. “People are frightened,” she said. “It’s a difficult time for the city.”
Source: The Guardian
