- Shooter identified as Gavin Long
- Three police officers killed, three others wounded in a shooting at a gas station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- This comes less than two weeks after a black man was shot dead at Baton Rouge.
- Suspect killed at the scene
- The shooting is the fourth high-profile deadly encounter in the US involving police over the past two weeks.
President Barack Obama on Sunday called for national unity after the killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge, and warned against using the deadly event to inflame political fighting during a charged political campaign.
We have our divisions and they are not new. That is why it is so important that everyone right now focus on words and actions that can unite this country further. We don’t need inflammatory rhetoric.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called the shooting “devastating.”
“There is no justification for violence, for hate, for attacks on men and women who put their lives on the line every day in service of our families and communities,” Clinton said in a statement.“Today’s devastating assault on police officers in Baton Rouge is an assault on all of us.”
The Baton Rouge shooter has been identified as Gavin Long, according to CNN.
The dead suspect in the Baton Rouge shooting was wearing all black and a mask, Baton Rouge Police Department Sgt. Don Coppola said.
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.
“We do not have an active shooter scenario in Baton Rouge,” Edmonson said.
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.