• Kedrick Pitts, the half-brother of slain Baton Rouge Policeman, Cpl Montrell Jackson, talks on the phone in front of Montrell’s mother’s house in Baton Rouge. Jackson was one of the law enforcement officers who were shot and killed on Sunday morning. Max Becherer / AP
    Kedrick Pitts, the half-brother of slain Baton Rouge Policeman, Cpl Montrell Jackson, talks on the phone in front of Montrell’s mother’s house in Baton Rouge. Jackson was one of the law enforcement officers who were shot and killed on Sunday morning. Max Becherer / AP
  • Octavia Lacey, the aunt of fallen Baton Rouge policeman Montrell Jackson gives a kiss to Kedrick Pitts, Montrell Jackson’s half-brother, in front of Montrell’s mother’s house in Baton Rouge. Jackson was one of the law enforcement officers who were shot and killed on Sunday morning. Max Becherer / AP
    Octavia Lacey, the aunt of fallen Baton Rouge policeman Montrell Jackson gives a kiss to Kedrick Pitts, Montrell Jackson’s half-brother, in front of Montrell’s mother’s house in Baton Rouge. Jackson was one of the law enforcement officers who were shot and killed on Sunday morning. Max Becherer / AP
  • Baton Rouge Police Officer Montrell Jackson holds his son Mason at a Father’s Day event for police officers in Baton Rouge. Jackson and two other Baton Rouge law enforcement officers investigating a report of a man with an assault rifle were killed Sunday. Courtesy of Trenisha Jackson via AP
    Baton Rouge Police Officer Montrell Jackson holds his son Mason at a Father’s Day event for police officers in Baton Rouge. Jackson and two other Baton Rouge law enforcement officers investigating a report of a man with an assault rifle were killed Sunday. Courtesy of Trenisha Jackson via AP
  • Police officers gather near the scene of the crime where three police officers were killed Sunday morning in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The suspect, identified as Gavin Long of Kansas City, is dead after killing three police officers and injuring three more. Sean Gardner / Getty Images / AFP
    Police officers gather near the scene of the crime where three police officers were killed Sunday morning in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The suspect, identified as Gavin Long of Kansas City, is dead after killing three police officers and injuring three more. Sean Gardner / Getty Images / AFP
  • Louisiana State Police officers leave the scene of the crime where three police officers were killed Sunday morning in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The suspect, identified as Gavin Long of Kansas City, is dead after killing three police officers and injuring three more. Sean Gardner / Getty Images / AFP
    Louisiana State Police officers leave the scene of the crime where three police officers were killed Sunday morning in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The suspect, identified as Gavin Long of Kansas City, is dead after killing three police officers and injuring three more. Sean Gardner / Getty Images / AFP
  • A police officer stands in front of an East Baton Rouge police car with bullet holes as it is towed away from the scene where three police officers were killed Sunday morning. Sean Gardner / Getty Images / AFP
    A police officer stands in front of an East Baton Rouge police car with bullet holes as it is towed away from the scene where three police officers were killed Sunday morning. Sean Gardner / Getty Images / AFP
  • Baton Rouge police officer Randy Bonaventure takes a bouquet of flowers at the Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, where the police officers were brought on Sunday. Three police officers were killed and wounded Sunday morning in a shooting near a gas station in Baton Rouge. Henrietta Wildsmith / The Times via AP
    Baton Rouge police officer Randy Bonaventure takes a bouquet of flowers at the Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, where the police officers were brought on Sunday. Three police officers were killed and wounded Sunday morning in a shooting near a gas station in Baton Rouge. Henrietta Wildsmith / The Times via AP
  • Law enforcement officials work the scene near where multiple Baton Rouge police officers were killed on Sunday, in Baton Rouge. Curtis Compton / Atlanta-Journal Constitution via AP
    Law enforcement officials work the scene near where multiple Baton Rouge police officers were killed on Sunday, in Baton Rouge. Curtis Compton / Atlanta-Journal Constitution via AP

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Three police officers killed in Baton Rouge shooting - in pictures

Rob Gurdebeke

July 18, 2016

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A black veteran shot three police officers dead Sunday in the Louisiana capital of Baton Rouge, in a bloody act reminiscent of recent slayings in Dallas to avenge African Americans killed by law enforcement. The shooting, which also wounded three other officers, took place in a city scarred by racial tensions and protests against police brutality since the July 5 death of Alton Sterling, a black man shot at point-blank range by white police.

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