Three Officers Dead, Three Wounded After Shooting in Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge Police block Airline Highway after police were shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Sunday.
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Baton Rouge, La. (AP) -- A former Marine dressed in black and carrying extra ammunition shot and killed three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers Sunday, less than two weeks after a black man was fatally shot by police here in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests that reverberated nationwide.
Three other officers were wounded, one critically. Police said the gunman was killed at the scene.