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3 officers dead, others injured in Baton Rouge shooting
Three police officers killed, three others wounded in Baton Rouge shooting before attacker fatally shotBATON ROUGE - Three law enforcement officers - two from the Baton Rouge Police Department and one from the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office - have been killed after six were shot in Baton Rouge Sunday morning, according to authorities from the East Baton Parish Sheriff's Office.
The lone suspected shooter is dead, according to Louisiana State Police.
Three officers were also injured -- one East Baton Parish Sheriff's deputy is in critical condition and two have non-life threatening injuries.
Continued from: http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/...ver-police-killings.76894/page-5#post-1186550Three police officers were killed and three others injured in a shooting Sunday morning in Baton Rouge, authorities said. The suspect, identified as Gavin Long, was shot and killed at the scene and police said, appeared to be acting alone. The deaths followed by only 10 days the fatal shootings of five Dallas police officers by Micah Xavier Johnson and amid a swell of heated controversy and demonstrations about the shootings by police of unarmed black men in Minnesota and Baton Rouge.
The three Baton Rouge officers were identified as Matthew Gerald, 41, a Marine and Army veteran who served in Iraq before joining the Baton Rouge police, Montrell Jackson, 32, also of the Baton Rouge police department and Brad Garafola, 45, of the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office. Gerald left a wife and two daughters. Jackson was the father of an infant about four months old. Garafola was married with four children. Another deputy was in critical condition after the shooting, Edmonson said at a briefing.
While police offered few immediate details about the exact origins of the incident, they say the violent incident unfolded early Sunday when officers responded to reports of a man carrying a rifle in an area filled with grocery stores and other businesses.
Col. Michael D. Edmonson of the Louisiana State Police, the agency taking the lead on the investigation, stressed Sunday afternoon that there was no active shooting situation and that police had killed the armed attacker, who died during a shootout with officers. Police provided no motive for the attack.
The attacker was identified Sunday afternoon as Long, according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation. Authorities are exploring whether more than one person may have played a role in the incident, according to both officials, who asked not to be identified discussing an ongoing investigation. Sunday was Long’s 29th birthday, according to one official. Long was identified in media reports confirmed by his military record as a Marine who achieved the rank of sergeant and had been deployed to Iraq before leaving service in August, 2010. Under a pseudonym, Long also made videos posted on YouTube, the most recent of which derided demonstrations like those after the shooting by Baton Rouge police of Alton Sterling two weeks ago, and advocated “bloodshed” instead.