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• Baton Rouge police shooting gunman Gavin Long had 2 rifles, 1 handgun: police

  18-07-2016 23:30
  
  The three weapons have been recovered by officials, who are investigating where they came from.
  
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• Baton Rouge police shootings leave a city in shock -- again

  18-07-2016 21:49
  
  Hearts are heavy --again -- in Baton Rouge following another soul-crushing tragedy. A gunman "ambushing" law enforcement officers -- killing three and wounding three others -- outside of a convenience store Sunday (July 17) has driven a community already on edge...
  
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• Gavin Long 'tactically' and 'intentionally' targeted Baton Rouge officers, police say

  18-07-2016 21:39
  
  Gavin Long used "tactical" strategies to attack Baton Rouge police officers, weaving in between several different buildings as he shot six officers on Sunday.
  
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• Pastor suspended over call for Baton Rouge boycott, TV station says

  18-07-2016 21:14
  
  Rev. Reginald Pitcher did not communicate with national office of Southern Christian Leadership Conference before calling for boycott
  
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• Taco Bell fires employee who refused to serve police

  18-07-2016 19:37
  
  Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said the deputies initially thought the cashier was joking when she wouldn't serve them late Saturday night.
  
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• Baton Rouge funds accepting donations for police officers shot Sunday

  18-07-2016 19:34
  
  The Baton Rouge Union of Police as well as the Baton Rouge Area Foundation are asking for donations to help the officers injured and slain in the attack on law enforcement.
  
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• Baton Rouge fund accepting donations for police officers shot Sunday

  18-07-2016 19:34
  
  The Baton Rouge Area Foundation is asking for donations to its East Baton Rouge First Responders Fund
  
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• Slain Baton Rouge deputy Brad Garafola's friend: 'He's got 4 beautiful kids,' shooting 'senseless'

  18-07-2016 19:23
  
  Brad Garafola's wife Tonja posted online Sunday, "I love you so much and I don't know how to do this without you."
  
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• Gavin Long was in Baton Rouge for 'a few days' before shooting, state police say

  18-07-2016 19:21
  
  "He was interacting with at least someone in the Baton Rouge area," Col. Mike Edmonson said
  
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• 45 deputies sworn in to work in EBR; More Tuesday

  18-07-2016 17:30
  
  BATON ROUGE – Forty-five sheriff's deputies from area parishes were sworn in to work in East Baton Rouge Monday evening.The deputies will work patrols on the streets, helping to ease the stress the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office is feeling. A deputy was shot and killed in an ambush by an assassin Sunday. Before the shooting, deputies were working long hours as protesters rallied in the aftermath of the shooting death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge earlier in July.&ldquo
  
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• Taco Bell employee fired after denying service to deputies

  18-07-2016 17:19
  
  PHENIX CITY, Ala. - A Taco Bell employee in Alabama has been fired after authorities say two Lee County deputies were denied service.
  Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said in a statement that the uniformed deputies were told by the cashier Saturday night in Phenix City that they wouldn't be served and they needed to leave.
  Taco Bell spokeswoman Laura Nedbal said in a statement to news outlets that the restaurant's franchise owner has since fired the employee.
  Nedbal says Taco Bell does not endorse t
  
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• Community outreach begins for slain officers

  18-07-2016 17:05
  
  BATON ROUGE – The Baton Rouge community has begun to rally in support of the fallen officers involved in Sunday's shooting on Airline Highway. From crowd funding campaigns to free food, the community is finding ways to help and show solidarity.The Baton Rouge Area Foundation is accepting donations for a fund for the families of the slain officers involved in Sunday's shooting, along with the officers who were left wounded.The East Baton Rouge First Responders Fund is established to hel
  
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• Community outreach begins for slain, injured officers

  18-07-2016 17:05
  
  BATON ROUGE – The Baton Rouge community has begun to rally in support of the fallen officers involved in Sunday's shooting on Airline Highway. From crowd funding campaigns to free food, the community is finding ways to help and show solidarity.The Baton Rouge Area Foundation is accepting donations for providing relief to officers who were wounded on Sunday and to the families of the three officers that were killed.Donations to the BRAF charitable fund can be made through the foundation
  
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• Neighbors express sadness after BRPD Officer Montrell Jackson slain

  18-07-2016 15:44
  
  BATON ROUGE - The community's hearts are heavy with sadness on the day after an ambush attack took the lives of three officers and injured three more. One of those men, Montrell Jackson, says they're trying to cope with a tragedy that doesn't make sense.The 32-year-old man was a 10-year veteran of the Baton Rouge Police Department who leaves behind a wife and 4-month-old son. Jackson attracted the attention of news outlets as soon as he was identified as one of the three officers killed when a s
  
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• Law enforcement agencies patrolling in pairs after Baton Rouge police shooting

  18-07-2016 15:42
  
  Law enforcement in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and New Orleans are on high alert after three officers were fatally shot on Sunday morning on Airline Highway.In New York City, the police department told personnel that all officers should patrol and even take breaks in pairs, effective immediately until further notice.
  "There are to be no solo foot posts citywide," the NYPD message said. "All uniform members of service shall arrive and remain on post together. All meals and personal bre
  
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• 1 officer released from OLOL; 1 remains in critical condition

  18-07-2016 14:54
  
  BATON ROUGE – One East Baton Rouge Sheriff's deputy that was involved in Sunday's shooting on Airline Highway has been released from the hospital.The deputy released was 51-year-old Bruce Simmons and reported to be in fair condition. Our Lady of Lake announced on Monday that one other deputy, Nicholas Tullier, remains in critical condition. One other officer was released from the hospital Sunday. 
  East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Deputy Brad Garafola, BRPD officer Matthew Ger
  
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• Authorities discuss vivid accounts of deadly ambush

  18-07-2016 14:26
  
  BATON ROUGE - Governor John Bel Edwards briefed the press on Monday afternoon to provide updates on the investigation into a tragic shooting that took the lives of three officers in Baton Rouge on Sunday.The governor began his address by noting that six days have passed before the shooting without any arrests being made in connection with protests in the Capital City.State Police have confirmed that shooter is in fact Kansas City resident 29-year-old Gavin Long. Edwards called the shooting a &am
  
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• LifeShare Blood Centers extend hours in support of injured officers

  18-07-2016 14:23
  
  BATON ROUGE - LifeShare Blood Centers has announced extended hours as a show of solidarity and support for the Baton Rouge officers who were victims in Sunday’s tragic shooting.The Baton Rouge LifeShare donation center at 3849 North Blvd. will remain open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday. A blood drive is scheduled to be held at the Gonzales Walmart, located at 308 North Airline Highway, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Blood drives on Tuesday are scheduled for the Zachary Police Depar
  
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• Republican National Convention kicks off in Cleveland

  18-07-2016 14:10
  
  CLEVELAND - As the Republican National Convention (RNC) kicks off in Cleveland today, there are three key questions on everyone’s mind.Will Donald Trump Speak?We're underway. @Reince takes podium. #RNCinCLE pic.twitter.com/5tRbYfuHM5— Tom Llamas (@TomLlamasABC) July 18, 2016Donald Trump said he will be at the RNC tonight to watch his wife Melania Trump speak. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee isn’t scheduled to deliver remarks of his own until Thursday night.
  
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• Flags ordered at half-staff on day after tragic shooting

  18-07-2016 14:01
  
  BATON ROUGE - Gov. John Bel Edwards has ordered the U.S. and state flag to be flown at half-staff over the Capitol and all public buildings in Louisiana until sunset on Monday.The governor said the decision was made in order to honor the lives of three law enforcement officers who were killed in Sunday’s tragic shooting on Airline Highway. Another three officers were injured.Edwards released the following statement to accompany his executive order:“These courageous m
  
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• John Bel Edwards turns Louisiana Governor's Mansion blue for fallen officers

  18-07-2016 13:44
  
  The governor has members of law enforcement in his immediate family.
  
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• Officer killed in Sunday shooting was devoted family man

  18-07-2016 13:43
  
  BATON ROUGE - The neighbor of one of the slain officers in Baton Rouge says that  if 41-year-old Matthew Gerald had been hardened by his years in the military, you couldn't tell it when he became an officer and got his squad car.Ashley Poe says Gerald seemed so tickled when he got his take-home car that he scrubbed it down and was playing with the lights, turning them on and off, just like a kid -- "living out the dream."Poe said her 14-year-old son was interested in military service, a
  
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• Sword-wielding man dies after Trooper uses Taser

  18-07-2016 13:37
  
  LIVINGSTON – A man who threatened a State Trooper on Highway 16 with a sword is dead after a Taser was used to control him.
  On Sunday about 6 p.m., a Louisiana State Trooper responded to a crash near Port Vincent on Highway 16 when the driver got out of the car with a sword.
  The man ran as the Trooper chased him and then confronted the Trooper with the sword. The Trooper then deployed his Taser to stop the man. According to Louisiana State Police, the man then stopped breathing.The Tro
  
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• Louisiana SCLC leader suspended after calling for boycott

  18-07-2016 13:23
  
  BATON ROUGE - Rev. Reginald Pitcher, head of the Louisiana Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has been suspended indefinitely after he called for a retail boycott in Baton Rouge.The boycott came in the wake of the fatal officer-involved shooting of a black man outside of a Capital City convenience store on July 5.SCLC President Charles Steele Jr. said Pitcher did not secure permission from the national office to call for the boycott.The “selective buying campaign&
  
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• 2 Florida players arrested, face charges for shooting BB gun

  18-07-2016 13:18
  
  GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Two Florida freshmen football players face felony charges for firing BB guns into a residential hall on the Gainesville campus.Officials say Tyrie Cleveland and Rick Wells - both 18 - were arrested Sunday. They remained in the Alachua County Jail on Monday morning and face felony charges of criminal mischief and firing into an occupied dwelling. Jail records don't indicate whether they have lawyers.A police report says a university officer went to Keys Residential housing on
  
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• Father and son dead after murder-suicide in Sulphur

  18-07-2016 12:52
  
  SULPHUR – The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office is investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Sulphur.
  According to CPSO, deputies were dispatched on Sunday night to a home in Sulphur in regards to a Facebook post.
  Kenneth Bacqué, 59, posted on social media that he was going to kill himself and may also harm his 4-year-old son who was at the home with him.Deputies forced entry into the home once they arrived on scene and located Bacque' along with his son in a bedroom. They
  
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• Alton Sterling's aunt, slain officer's dad embrace, pray at memorial

  18-07-2016 12:47
  
  BATON ROUGE - Alton Sterling's aunt and the father of one of the officers killed in an ambush Sunday morning in Baton Rouge met at a growing memorial for the slain officers Monday night.A photo taken by ABC News Correspondent Lana Zak shows Sandra Sterling and Hosea Jackson with their arms around one another at the B-Kwik gas station on Airline Highway.Jackson is Montrell Jackson's father. Jackson was one of three officers shot and killed in the attack Sunday. In a press conference Monday, law e
  
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• Scene of deadly ambush becomes memorial to officers

  18-07-2016 12:31
  
  BATON ROUGE - The B Quick convenience store where a man from Missouri ambushed and killed three law enforcement officers Sunday has become an emotional memorial to the victims.Monday morning, police officers from other jurisdictions prayed among flowers left at the scene. Citizens brought their children to leave flowers, too. One woman accompanied by two young children broke down as she and the kids left flowers at the base of a sign outside the store at the corner of Airline Highway and Old Ham
  
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• Baltimore officer acquitted in custody death

  18-07-2016 12:26
  
  BALTIMORE - A judge has acquitted a Baltimore police officer on all charges in the death of Freddie Gray, a black who died after he was injured in a police transport van.
      
  Lt. Brian Rice was acquitted Monday after a bench trial by Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams. Rice is the fourth of the six officers charged to go on trial in the 2015 death. Three earlier trials resulted in two acquittals and a mistrial.
      
  Rice faced char
  
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• Online, gunman said: 'You've got to fight back'

  18-07-2016 12:12
  
  BATON ROUGE - In online posts, a man using an alias of the Baton Rouge shooter says protests alone don't work, and people must fight back after the deaths of black men at the hands of police.
  Documents show that gunman Gavin Eugene Long sought to change his name last year to Cosmo Setepenra. A website using that name links to online books about nutrition, self-awareness and empowerment. The man describes himself as a "Freedom Strategist, Mental Game Coach, Nutritionist, Author and Spiritual Advi
  
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• Shots fired during pursuit in Paincourtville, suspect got away

  18-07-2016 12:08
  
  PAINCOURTVILLE - The Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office confirms that shots were fired during a vehicle pursuit Monday evening. Deputies were not the ones who fired the shots, a spokesperson says.The situation began when a deputy stopped a speeding vehicle. The driver initially stopped, but then took off again. The deputy gave pursuit until the suspect bailed out of their vehicle.Deputies say the suspect took off into the woods along Hwy. 308. It was during that time that eight shots were fired.
  
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• State Senator Troy Brown arrested again on domestic abuse charge

  18-07-2016 09:37
  
  GONZALES – State Senator Troy Brown, who was previously arrested in 2015 for domestic abuse, was arrested again early Monday morning on similar charges.According to arrest records, Brown was arrested on Monday around 12 a.m. for domestic abuse battery by the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office.Brown’s bond is $5,000 and is currently awaiting arraignment.Further details of his arrest have not been released at the time of this post, however his previous arrest stemmed f
  
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• Livingston Parish president urges for prayer and unity after Sunday shooting

  18-07-2016 09:13
  
  LIVINGSTON – Livingston Parish President Layton Ricks released a statement on the Sunday morning shooting where three Baton Rouge officers were killed and another three were injured.Sheriff’s deputy Brad Garafola, BRPD officers BRPD officers Montrell Jackson and Matthew Gerald were by the lone gunman, 29-year-old Gavin Long, on Airline Highway near Old Hammond.Three other officers were left injured on Sunday. One of those injured officers is sheriff's deputy Nicholas Tullier
  
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• Vigils planned for slain officers on Monday and Tuesday

  18-07-2016 08:58
  
  BATON ROUGE – The Baton Rouge community has begun to plan vigils for the three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers killed on Sunday after a shooting on Airline Highway.Sheriff's deputy Brad Garafol, BRPD officers Montrell Jackson and Matthew Gerald were killed by Gavin Long, 29, after he opened fire as he was walking around masked with a gun near Hammond Aire Plaza on Sunday morning.Two vigils have been planned for Garafol, Jackson and Gerald for Monday night and Tuesday night. The vi
  
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• Autopsy: Officers died of multiple gunshot wounds

  18-07-2016 08:23
  
  BATON ROUGE - The coroner for Baton Rouge says that each of the three officers that were killed in Sunday morning's shooting died of multiple gunshot wounds.East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Beau Clark said that the autopsies will began around 8 a.m., and the results were released around 5:30 p.m. on Monday. The three officers slain were East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Deputy Brad Garafola, BRPD officer Matthew Gerald and BRPD officer Montrell Jackson. Clark says an autopsy on the deceased suspe
  
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• Autopsies of slain officers to be performed Monday in Baton Rouge

  18-07-2016 08:23
  
  BATON ROUGE - The coroner for Baton Rouge says his office will perform autopsies Monday on the three officers slain in an attack this weekend.
      
  East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Beau Clark says they autopsies will begin around 8 a.m., and he expects to release his preliminary findings, including the cause of their deaths, sometime this afternoon. The three officers slain were East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Deputy Brad Garafola, BRPD officer Matthew Gerald and BRPD
  
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• Gavin Long: What we know about Baton Rouge police shooting suspect

  18-07-2016 07:42
  
  He seems appears to have been eager for black people such as himself to take a strong physical stance against mistreatment by authorities
  
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• NEW: FBI monitoring New Black Panther Party; Group in Baton Rouge

  18-07-2016 07:32
  
  BATON ROUGE – The FBI is closely monitoring the New Black Panther Party – an organization that recently formed a local chapter in the wake of the shooting death of Alton Sterling.WBRZ was first to report about the newly-formed group when they gathered Saturday in the parking lot of the Triple S convenience store where Sterling was shot and killed by police on July 5.“It is time for new leadership and a new organization to step forward in Baton Rouge,” Edwi
  
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• Businesses up and running around shooting scene

  18-07-2016 07:27
  
  BATON ROUGE - Businesses around a shooting that killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are reopening as police continue investigating the scene.
      
  Customers were buying coffee and breakfast sandwiches Monday at a B-Quik convenience store near where officers first engaged the gunman less than 24 hours earlier. Next door, workers prepared for the day at a car wash where the gunman was cornered.
      
  Businesses on tw
  
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• Baton Rouge police shooting condemned by Vice President Joe Biden

  18-07-2016 05:49
  
  '"It's a despicable act, and it's an attack on our very way of life at home," he tells crowd at aircraft factory in Melbourne, Australia
  
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• All lanes now open on I-10 West

  18-07-2016 05:38
  
  BATON ROUGE - All lanes are now open on I-10 West at the Mississippi River Bridge.The right and center lanes of I-10 westbound at the bridge were blocked early Monday morning due to an accident. Congestion from this accident is approaching the I-10/I-12 split.HUGE MESS I10 W: RT AND CENTER LANES BLOCKED ON MS RIVER BRIDGE DUE TO ACCIDENT W/ INJ. DELAYS PAST COLLEGE DR pic.twitter.com/CAwxJRK4R2— WBRZ Traffic (@WBRZtraffic) July 18, 2016News 2's Ashley Fruge is monitoring the roadways o
  
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• Gavin Long, Baton Rouge shooting suspect, was Marine from Missouri

  18-07-2016 03:56
  
  No immediate evidence linking him to any known extremist group or movement
  
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• 3rd officer killed in Baton Rouge police shooting is identified

  18-07-2016 03:21
  
  Brad Garafola, 45, was 24-year veteran of East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office
  
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• Slain Baton Rouge officer Matthew Gerald 'made to serve the people,' says military friend

  18-07-2016 02:34
  
  Ryan D. Cabral said Matthew Gerald, a friend who he served overseas with in the military, was one of the officers killed Sunday (July 17) in Baton Rouge.
  
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• Slain Baton Rouge police officer Montrell Jackson 'the backbone of the family,' uncle says

  18-07-2016 01:58
  
  Charles Cavalier said his nephew Montrell Jackson was among the officers killed Sunday (July 17) in Baton Rouge.
  
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• Officers converge on house listed for reported shooting suspect Gavin Long

  18-07-2016 01:01
  
  Law enforcement officers have converged on a house in Kansas City, Missouri, that is listed for a man named Gavin Long.
  
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