Designed explosive attached robot used in killing the shooter
Although Dallas Police chief David Brown in a press
conference said there may be more suspects being looked out for suggesting that
there may be more than only one shooter that night. According chief Brown the
police will investigate and definitely get to the root of the attack and
suspects brought to justice. At the press conference, Police Chief David Brown
explained that after long hours of negotiating with the suspect, the explosive
device attached to a robot was deployed on the second floor of El Centro
College in downtown Dallas early Friday morning to eliminate the shooter after all negotiations failed.
The 5 Officers killed in the shoot-out
Dallas police used an explosive device attached to a robot
to kill Dallas sniper who shot at Law enforcement officers on Thursday night
during a Black Lives Matter protest march killing 5 officers and wounding 7
others. Micah Xavier Johnson, the main suspect who acted as a sniper in what
the police say was thoroughly and carefully well planned that killed the 5
officers.
Micah Xavier Johnson while shooting the officers
Police Chief Brown added that his men cornered the suspect and
they tried to negotiate for several hours - negotiations broke down, and they
had an exchange of gunfire with the suspect,” he said. “We saw no other option
but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to
detonate where the suspect was,” Brown said. The Police Chief explained that
“other options” would have exposed the police officers to great danger.
Micah Xavier Johnson shot and killed a
newlywed Navy veteran of three tours in Iraq and four other officers in a
sniper ambush on the night. The victims were identified on Friday by officials,
relatives and the media as Dallas Police Department officers Senior Cpl. Lorne
Ahrens, Officer Michael Krol, Sgt. Michael J. Smith, Officer Patrick Zamarripa,
and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) police officer Brent Thompson.
The 5 Officers killed in the shoot-out
Seven other police
officers and two civilians were seriously wounded in the shooting at the end of
a protest over this week's killing of two black men by police in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, and a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota. This heinous act by the shooter
is the deadliest in America history on law enforcement officers since 9/11
police source says.
The Dallas shooter was a U.S. Army reservist who served in
Afghanistan. He was said to have hid at the parking garage of El Centro College
in downtown Dallas, Texas.
Micah Xavier Johnson
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