A third officer tried to help the wounded policeman, but Long engaged him in a gunfight as he approached, and killed him with multiple gunshot wounds. He first shot and killed a police officer, and shot and wounded his partner who fell to the ground.
Īccording to investigators, Long fired upon the first responding officers, fatally wounding three. Another two minutes afterwards, there were reports that officers were down. Shots were reportedly fired two minutes later. When officers arrived at the scene, they found Long clad in black and wearing a face mask behind the Hair Crown Beauty Supply store on the 9600 block of Airline Highway. However, due to Louisiana's open carry law at the time, the potential threat of Long was downplayed, with one dispatcher describing him as a "subject walking with a coat and an assault rifle." Authorities were going to question him and had no probable cause to take him into custody. īy 8:40 a.m., police received a call about a suspicious person carrying a rifle near the plaza. He then drove north and noticed a police officer washing his vehicle a short distance away, but the officer left before Long could get close. Long parked his vehicle behind an adjacent building, got out, and prepared to shoot, but found that the vehicle was empty. He first spotted a police patrol vehicle parked at a B-Quik convenience store it belonged to a sheriff's deputy who was working security in the area. CT and began scouting the area in search of police officers. Long arrived at Hammond Aire Plaza, a shopping complex on Airline Highway, sometime before 8:40 a.m. The Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters, where protests in response to the police killing of Alton Sterling took place in the weeks prior to the shooting by Long. The area around B-Quik convenience store and Hair Crown Beauty Supply where Long shot six police officers, killing three, until he was shot and killed by SWAT at 8:48 a.m. Hammond Aire Plaza, where Long began the shooting sometime before 8:40 a.m. Map of area around Airline Highway near I-12. Ten days earlier, five police officers were killed in a mass shooting in Dallas. Within the previous week, four suspects were arrested in connection with an alleged plot to kill Baton Rouge police officers, which was described as a credible threat by law enforcement officials.
On July 7, the FBI's New Orleans field office issued a warning about "threats to law enforcement and potential threats to the safety of the general public" stemming from the death of Sterling. Baton Rouge was experiencing ongoing protests following the officer-involved killing of Alton Sterling less than two weeks before on July 5. The shooting occurred during a period of unrest in Baton Rouge, though it is unclear if the events are related. Long, who associated himself with organizations linked to black separatism and the sovereign citizen movement, was shot and killed by a SWAT officer during a shootout with police at the scene. Three died and three were hospitalized, one critically of the officers who died, two were members of the Baton Rouge Police Department, while the third worked for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office. On July 17, 2016, Gavin Eugene Long shot six police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in an ambush attack, in the wake of the shooting of Alton Sterling. Outrage over shootings and police brutality against African Americans by law enforcement įederal lawsuit against Black Lives Matter by Tullier dismissed
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