In the wake of the shooting, the suspect then allegedly set fire to the home. Flames spread quickly to several nearby homes. At least four homes have been destroyed.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office on Friday reluctantly released the preliminary findings from the state's medical examiner's office and a series of five surveillance videos that showed the sequence of events surrounding the killing of Fayetteville Police Officer Stephen Carr as he sat in a patrol vehicle outside the police station earlier this month.
“Looks like he tried to assassinate a couple of our police officers,” Chief Peter Newsham said.
An off-duty officer with the Chicago Police Department was followed from his police precinct while in his personally owned vehicle and fired upon in an apparent ambush attack.
A 19-year-old man confessed Tuesday to shooting and critically wounding Fort Lupton, CO, Sgt. Christopher Pelton in an impromptu ambush.
Officers responding to a disturbance call came under fire from a gunman with a semi-automatic rifle on Tuesday morning in the town of Laredo.
Fourteen police officers were killed in an ambush attack in the state of Michoacán, where drug cartels have for years been engaged in violent battle with each other and with Mexican police.
During closing arguments Tuesday, prosecutors told the jury Miller wanted to “make a statement” with the killings. After ambushing Howard and Baxter, he shot them both in the head. Prosecutors said Miller was motivated by hatred of police.
A gunman who ambushed officers with the Los Angeles Police Department was shot and killed by officers on Sunday night.
According to DeKalb police, officers were ambushed while responding to a domestic call at a home in the Stonecrest area. They were “immediately fired upon” by someone hiding between two homes, Maj. Jerry Lewis said.