Friday, July 8, 2016

11 Dallas Officers Shot, 4 Dead in Shooting as Protest Ended


Eleven Dallas law enforcement officers were shot, four fatally, by what is believed to be two snipers who opened fire during a demonstration downtown over recent police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana, the Dallas police chief said.

The snipers fired from an elevated positions on police officers minutes before 9 p.m., Dallas Police Chief David Brown told reporters.

"We believe that these suspects were positioning themselves in a way to triangulate on these officers from two different perches in garages in the downtown area, and planned to injure and kill as many law enforcement officers as they could," he said. Some were shot in the back.

Police have cornered one of the suspected shooters in a parking garage, Brown said, and were negotiating with him.

Brown said police believe the suspects may have threatened to have plant a bomb in the downtown area, and were in contact with the FBI and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. 

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Source: NBC News

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