Active gunfire continues in Baton Rouge as police search for bombs
 
 
Law enforcement at the Baton Rouge convenience store where multiple shooters killed three police officers Sunday morning and wounded three more are using a robot to check the shop for explosives, said police spokesperson L'Jean McKneely.
The B-Quick Convenience Store on Airline Highway is still a site of active shooting as of about noon Central time, McKneely added, as there is a "running gun fight" in the nearby parking lot. One shooting suspect has been killed by police but it is believed that two remain at large.
Update 5:31 p.m.: Baton Rouge law enforcement have identified a single gunman, Gavin Eugene Long, and say there has been no active shooter situation in Baton Rouge since Long was killed in a shootout with police Sunday morning.
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