Three police officers have been shot dead and three others wounded in gun attack on seven police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisianna, United States, the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office said, less than two weeks after a black man was killed by the police here, sparking nightly protests.A suspect had been killed by police gunfire, said a police spokesman, Cpl. L’Jean McKneely. Two officers from the Baton Rouge police and an East Baton Rouge sheriff’s deputy were killed. One sheriff’s deputy remained in critical condition while two officers were in stable condition.
Police said initially that they were combing for other possible suspects, but the superintendent of the Louisiana State Police, Col. Michael Edmonson, later said at a news conference that the person who shot and killed the officers had been shot and killed at the crime scene.
Sunday’s shooting happened in a month of violence and racial tension in the country. It was perpertrated after Baton Rouge officers on July 5 fatally shot Alton B. Sterling, a black man who was selling CDs outside a convenience store. The night after Mr. Sterling was killed, another black man was killed by the police during a traffic stop in a St. Paul suburb, and then the next night, five police officers were killed by a gunman in Dallas who said he wanted to kill as many police officers as possible, particularly white officers.
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