2024-04-30 05:38:00
The police wanted to pick up a man with a criminal record. He opened fire. A total of eight police officers were shot.
At a shoot-out in the US state North Carolina are four police officers killed and several more injured become.
The police had a convicted man in the city on Monday afternoon Charlotte Police chief said he was visited against whom there was an arrest warrant for illegal possession of a firearm Johnny Jennings at a press conference. When they arrived at his home, a man opened fire in the front yard.
The police then also fired and fatally shot the shooter, said Jennings. But more shots were also fired from the house. The police finally managed to secure the building and arrest two people in the house. They would now be interrogated.
Eight police officers shot
Eight police officers were shot during the operation, said Jennings. Three succumbed to their injuries at the scene and one later died in hospital. “Today we lost some heroes who were simply committed to keeping our community safe,” Jennings said. “If we put on this uniform, we have no guarantee that we will return home.”
Firearms are readily available and widely circulated in the United States. Attacks with many victims regularly shock the country – for example at schools, supermarkets, nightclubs or at large events. But private arguments, police checks, disputes between criminals and gangs also end in death far more often than in other countries because so many people in the USA carry weapons.
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