Baton Rouge shooter dead, identified as Gavin Eugene Long

Baton Rouge police respond to a shooting attack on officers — (Image credit: Joe Penney/Reuters)

Police have identified a single perpetrator of Sunday's attack on police in Baton Rouge which left three officers dead and several more wounded.

Gavin Eugene Long, age 29, of Kansas City, Missouri, was killed Sunday morning in a shootout with officers. It was his birthday. Law enforcement originally believed there may have been additional shooters at large.

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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.