marketwatch | Eleven police officers were shot by at least two snipers in Dallas
Thursday night during a protest over police brutality, leaving five
officers dead and wounding six, throwing the city into chaos and turning
parts of downtown into a massive crime scene by Friday morning.
Dallas
Police Chief David Brown said the snipers had opened fire on officers
from “elevated positions” during the protests. A civilian was also
wounded.
Three suspects were taken into custody, including a woman.
A fourth suspect exchanged gunfire with police in a tense, hourslong
standoff with police overnight, but that confrontation ended early
Friday morning, according to a city spokesperson. Sana Syed, a Dallas
public information officer, said she couldn’t confirm the status of the
fourth and final suspect, but said “the standoff is over.”
The
suspect had told police negotiators that “the end is coming,” and that
bombs had been placed around the garage and downtown with the aim of
killing more law-enforcement personnel, Chief Brown said, adding that he
had asked his staff for a plan to end the standoff.
Police are
working on the assumption that all four may have been involved in the
attack. It appeared the suspects had knowledge of the protest route,
allowing them to take up “triangulated” positions above the march and
target officers.
