Pine Bluff Police Chief Kelvin Sergeant said the shootout involved three officers and at least one suspect. The three officers were conducting an ongoing investigation as part of the violent crime unit.
Officer Lucas Campoverde was shot in the line of duty in mid-August. He had been in intensive care for nearly two weeks following the shooting but emerged from the entrance to the hospital and stood before a gathering of law enforcement officers who came from all around the region to wish him a speedy recovery.
An officer with the Grafton (ND) Police Department was shot in a gunfight on Friday night.
An officer with the Columbus (OH) Division of Police was shot and critically wounded during a response to a disturbance call at a home early Thursday morning.
The driver of a tractor-trailer truck who shot at New York deputies during a wild overnight vehicle pursuit was killed in an armed confrontation with law enforcement officers after the chase ended.
A US Marshal was shot twice in a gunfight with a murder suspect from Arkansas following a vehicle pursuit.
Eventually, both Klamath County deputies and state police troopers stopped the SUV using a spike strip, but when Goff got out, he opened fire on them with an AK-47 rifle, according to authorities.
When officers in New Orleans exchanged gunfire with an armed robbery suspect on Sunday night, at least five people waiting at a bus stop were caught in the crossfire.
A 25-year-old Maryland man will very probably live the rest of his life behind bars after being sentenced on Thursday to 195 years in prison.
A Meridian (ID) police officer who was wounded in a gun battle over the weekend is in good condition.