It was not immediately clear whether there is a link between Sunday’s shootings and the recent unrest over police killings of black men in Baton Rouge and Minnesota. But he continued to show up and do his job, he said, and he offered hugs to anyone who encountered him.
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He was also briefly enrolled at Clark Atlanta University during the 2012-13 academic year, the school said.
Micah Johnson, who was behind the July 7 Dallas shooting that killed five police officers, was also a black military veteran and had served with the US Army Reserve in Afghanistan from November 2013 to July 2014.
After the attack in Baton Rouge, two people were taken into custody who were believed to be connected with the shooting, but they were later released.
In Kansas City, police officers, some with guns drawn, converged on a house listed as Long’s.
“Our hearts and prayers are with the fallen and wounded officers, their families, and the entire Baton Rouge community in this extraordinarily hard time”.
The gunman who killed three police officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been identified as a former US Marine named Gavin Long, according to a government source with knowledge of the investigation.
Two were Baton Rouge police officers, 32-year-old Montrell Jackson and 41-year-old Matthew Gerald, and one was an East Baton Rouge Parish deputy, 45-year-old Brad Garafola.
Officer Gerald and his wife, Dechia, celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary just two weeks ago, according to WWL-TV (http://bit.ly/2a9jnF9 ).
Days before he was shot and killed, Montrell Jackson posted an emotional message on Facebook, about how hard it was to be a black police officer in Baton Rouge.
State police also extend thoughts and prayers to the Baton Rouge police force.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards told a news conference it was an “absolutely unspeakable, heinous attack”. The killing was captured on cellphone video.
“These last three days have tested me to the core”, Jackson wrote on his Facebook page, in an entry posted the day after the Dallas shootings and just over a week before he was killed. “Today he did his final service by giving his life to protect the citizens of Baton Rouge and his fellow brothers and sisters in uniform”.
The Associated Press contributed reporting.
‘My uncle wouldn’t want this, ‘ Mr Carter said. “He wasn’t this type of man”.
Obama has spent most of the last week focused on defusing tensions and rebuilding trust between police departments and the communities they serve. He and his girlfriend both work there. “We stopped, I froze, he froze for a second, and he turned around and ran in the opposite direction the same time I turned around and ran in the opposite direction”, Vancel said.
In a live broadcast from the White House, President Obama called upon all Americans to unite and refrain from divisive language. One of them was her husband. I’m surrounded by the best of the best every single day.
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Also Sunday, a domestic violence suspect opened fire on a Milwaukee police officer who was sitting in his squad vehicle.
