Mayors office confirms: 3 dead. Gerald was a former Marine, a former Black Hawk Crew Chief in the Army.
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President Obama condemned what he called “an attack on law enforcement in Baton Rouge”, after three officers were killed and three others wounded on Sunday, saying such attacks on police “have to stop”. A state police spokesman said investigators were unsure whether he had some kind of help from others. Obama released a statement Sunday afternoon in addition to his press conference. Three officers are dead and three are hospitalized with injuries.
Two of the officers who died were Baton Rouge Police officers. The deputy killed was 45 years old.
The two remaining officers at OLOL hospital are being treated.
The shooting took place along a highway around 08:40 (13:40 GMT), after police responded to a call about a man carrying a rifle. Ann and I are praying for the families of these fallen officers who were murdered while simply doing their job.
He saw a man in a red shirt lying in an empty parking lot and “another gunman running away as more shots were being fired back and forth from several guns”.
Authorities said more than one officer was shot in the 9 a.m. incident, according to The Associated Press.
The Baton Rouge Advocate reported that two other men were picked up across the Mississippi River in Addis and were being questioned by police as “persons of interest”. They say the men were dressed in all black, they changed clothes inside the store, then left in a silver Nissan with a Texas license plate.
Republican Donald Trump is blaming a “lack of leadership” for Sunday’s shooting of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
This month, after Dallas but before Baton Rouge, at least three countries – Baharain, the United Arab Emirates and the Bahamas – issued travel advisories, telling their citizens to be avoid the United States or be wary while visiting here.
The victims were from Baton Rouge Police Department as well as East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, another official said.
Whatever the motive in Baton Rouge, the incident highlighted frayed nerves and was linked by people of all political backgrounds to the July 7 shootings in Dallas and the earlier deaths in Baton Rouge and Minneapolis. One suspect was also shot and killed, and authorities are still searching for two more.
Messages from across the globe have been coming in to the WAFB newsroom. I really feel for you all at this hard time. It really saddens me to again turn on the news and hear of another shooting in the U.S. specifically against law enforcement.
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He reportedly attacked police at a gas station on Airline Highway where protests had been held following the shooting death of Alton Sterling by a Baton Rouge officer.
