Chaos grips Dallas as snipers strike racism bias protest
8 July 2016 12:32 PM IST8 July 2016 12:32 PM IST
Police continue to exchange gunfire with a suspect holed up in a downtown garage hours after the shooting started.
Four police officers were killed and seven others wounded by snipers in chaotic scenes in Dallas during a protest against police shootings of black men, with a suspect warning that bombs were planted throughout the city center.- TV cameras showed the search for the gunman stretched throughout downtown, an area of hotels, restaurants, businesses and some residential apartments.
- TV cameras showed the search for the gunman stretched throughout downtown, an area of hotels, restaurants, businesses and some residential apartments.
- Officers with guns drawn were running near and into the parking garage as police searched for the shooter.
- Scores of police and security officers were on hand. Police and others hunched behind cars outside a parking garage.
- The statement said three officers are deceased, two are in surgery and three are in critical condition.
- The gunfire broke out around 8:45 p.m. Thursday while hundreds of people were gathered to protest fatal police shootings this week in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota.
- Police were continuing to exchange gunfire with a suspect holed up in a downtown garage hours after the shooting started.
- City Police Chief David Brown said two snipers shot at police officers from elevated positions during the protest/rally.' A civilian was also wounded.
Four police officers were killed and seven others wounded by snipers in chaotic scenes in Dallas during a protest against police shootings of black men, with a suspect warning that bombs were planted throughout the city center.
Police continue to exchange gunfire with a suspect holed up in a downtown garage hours after the shooting started.
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