3 officers confirmed dead in Baton Rouge police shooting

Baton Rouge police respond to a shooting attack on officers

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last updated 17 July 2016

Baton Rouge's chief administrative officer, William Daniel, confirmed Sunday morning that three officers have died in an attack on police in which six were shot. Two were Baton Rouge police officers and one was an East Baton Rouge Parish deputy.

The incident reportedly began when police were notified about a "suspicious person walking down Airline Highway with an assault rifle," a source with knowledge of the circumstances told CNN. Once the officers arrived, the gunman allegedly began shooting indiscriminately.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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