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groundloop

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Fri Aug 30, 2024, 08:31 AM Aug 2024

1 police officer shot and killed, 2 others wounded in Dallas shooting [View all]

Source: ABC News

One police officer has been shot and killed and two others wounded after a shooting in Dallas, Texas, authorities have confirmed.

Dallas police officers were called to a report of an officer in distress on the 900 block of E. Ledbetter Drive in southern Dallas, according to Kristin Lowman, Dallas Police Department’s communications director, who addressed the media early Friday morning.

When officers arrived, they found an officer shot in his marked patrol vehicle and the responding officers began to exchange gunfire with a suspect at the scene, Lowman said. Two police officers were shot in that exchange.

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The suspect eventually stopped and exited their vehicle carrying a long gun when Dallas officers shot and killed the individual.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/1-police-officer-shot-killed-2-wounded-dallas/story?id=113266077



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