At least three police officers Killed and a suspect have been shot and killed in Baton Rouge, the second largest city in the US state of Louisiana.
The officers in Baton Rouge were responding to a call of a man with a gun when shots were fired. Two Baton Rouge police officers and one sheriff’s deputy were killed.
One gunman is dead and police believe he was the only one involved in the attack, Mike Edmonson, superintendent of the Louisiana State Police, said in a press conference.
Multiple US news outlets identified the suspected gunman in Sunday’s fatal shootings of law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge as Gavin Long, with CBS News saying Long was a Black male from Kansas City, Missouri.
It was not immediately clear whether there was a link between the shootings and the recent unrest over the police killings of black men in Baton Rouge and Minnesota.
Police did not give any information about a possible motive.
US President Barack Obama condemned the “cowardly” shooting and demanded an end to such violence.
“It is so important that everyone … right now focus on words and actions that can unite this country rather than divide it further,” Obama said.
“We don’t need inflammatory rhetoric. We don’t need careless accusations thrown around to score political points or to advance an agenda. We need to temper our words and open our hearts, all of us.”
Obama has repeatedly called for racial unity.
“We as a nation have to be loud and clear that nothing justifies violence against law enforcement,” Obama told reporters at the White House.
News Source : www.aljazeera.com/
