“You get what I’m saying?” he said. Investigators examined a hole in a window at a fitness-supply business, and wood covered another window that was shot out.
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The black US Marine Corps veteran who shot dead three police officers in Louisiana’s capital targeted them and assassinated them, authorities say as the United States reeled from the latest deadly violence involving police and African-Americans.
After the Marines, he attended the University of Alabama for one semester, in the spring of 2012, according to university spokesman Chris Bryant.
“Everybody on this street depended on him”, she said. I just wanted to let you all know: don’t affiliate me with nothing. yeah, I was also a Nation of Islam member, I’m not affiliated with it.
Missouri court records show that a Gavin Eugene Long filed a petition for divorce in February 2011.
In the wake of the shooting, a source briefed on law enforcement’s investigation told ABC News it appeared that Long showed support online for the Moorish Science Temple of America, which was described in an unrelated lawsuit as a group that believes the descendants of slaves are not subject to USA laws.
The shooting began at a gas station and convenience store where, according to radio traffic, police answered a report of a man with an assault rifle and were met by gunfire.
The recording lasts about 17 minutes and includes urgent calls for an armored personnel carrier called a BearCat.
“It was a hell of a shot”, Dabadie said, scoffing at critics of “militarized” police tactics. “It’s the world we live in today and until we come up with some solutions to these societal problems and the issues we have going in our nation, until we commit ourselves to certain things as a nation, values and basic beliefs again, I think we’re going to continue having problems”. “I was in shock, and he was acting impulsively”.
Agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were trying to determine where Long obtained the guns.
“These attacks are the work of cowards who speak for no one”, President Barack Obama said in reaction to the shootings.
Two law enforcement officers remain hospitalized Monday after they were wounded during an ambush attack, officials say.
Brad Garafola, 45, deputy to the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, was a jack of all trades who “loved staying outside and fixing things”, his wife Tonja Garafola told The Advocate. Officers Matthew Gerald and Montrell Jackson were killed by Long.
Post-mortem tests on the officers were due to be performed yesterday and the the coroner is expected to release preliminary findings later. He peddled self-published books with abstract themes about self-empowerment and spiritual enlightenment, but also posted rambling internet videos calling for violent action in response to what he considered oppression.
It was followed a day later by the shooting death of another black man in Minnesota, whose girlfriend livestreamed the aftermath of his death on Facebook.
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The IWR Tavor SAR 5.56 rifle Gavin Long used in his deadly ambush on police officers.
