Cops Under Attack

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-idUSKBN13G0KH'>Reuters

Nov 21, 2016

A police officer was killed in Texas and another shot in Missouri in apparently unrelated attacks on Sunday, and the suspect in the Missouri incident was killed in a shootout with authorities. Another police officer was shot and wounded in a similar attack in Florida, although he was not seriously injured.

In Texas, a San Antonio police officer was shot and killed sitting in a squad car during a routine traffic stop outside the city's police headquarters on Sunday, authorities said. The assailant stopped his car behind the parked police cruiser, walked to the patrol car and shot the officer in the head through the window as he was writing a ticket, Police Chief William McManus said. The gunman then reached through the window, fired a second shot into the officer, returned to his vehicle and sped away. The slain officer was identified as Benjamin Marconi, 50, a 20-year veteran.

 

Hours later, a St. Louis policeman was shot in the face as he sat in his cruiser at an intersection, by someone in a car who pulled up beside the officer, opened fire and fled. St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said the wounded officer was conscious and able to speak after the attack. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the suspect was later killed during a shootout as he fled from officers who spotted his car. He has not been identified.

 

In Florida, local media reported another police officer was shot during a traffic stop on Sanibel Island, on the state's Gulf coast.

The officer was treated for a shoulder wound and later released, the reports said. The suspect was apprehended at his home on an island off Ft. Myers. Investigators still lacked any immediate clue to the identity of the San Antonio gunman. They found no apparent link with the man who had been pulled over, McManus told reporters.

 

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Video: St. Louis Officer Shot in Face, Suspect Killed in Shootout

 

Sunday night a St. Louis police officer was shot twice in the face while sitting in a patrol vehicle. Early Monday morning a suspect wanted in connection to that shooting was killed in a shootout with officers.

 

In a late night press conference, Chief Sam Dotson said the department is looking into whether the suspect was afraid he might have been recognized by the officer that was shot Sunday. That officer was rushed to the hospital and went into surgery Sunday night. He was reportedly released from the hospital this morning.

 

Dotson said officers and federal authorities fanned out after the shooting looking for the suspect. His vehicle was located in a parking garage on Laclede’s Landing.

 

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Suspect arrested in shooting of San Antonio police officer
posted at 1:01 pm on November 22, 2016 by John Sexton

 

 

Bond set at $2 million for suspect in Sanibel officer shooting
Nov 22, 2016

 

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Person of interest in custody after Wayne State University officer shot in Detroit
November 22, 2016



A person of interest was taken into custody after an officer from Wayne State University was shot Tuesday night in an off campus area of Detroit, according to the city's police chief.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig told reporters the five-year police veteran is in "critical" condition after being shot while on duty and was in surgery.

Craig told FOX 2 Detroit the person of interest, DeAngelo Davis was located nearby.