HORROR: Five Dallas Police Killed, Six Wounded In Sniper Attack During Protest Against Police Shootings

From the New York Times:

Snipers killed five Dallas police officers and wounded six others on Thursday night during a demonstration against shootings by officers in Minnesota and Louisiana this week, the authorities said.

It appeared to be the deadliest attack on law enforcement officers in the United States since 9/11. The shootings, only a few blocks from Dealey Plaza, where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, transformed an emotional but peaceful rally into a scene of carnage and chaos, and injected a volatile new dimension into the anguished debate over racial disparities in American criminal justice.

The Dallas police chief, David O. Brown, said that four suspects armed with rifles were believed to have carried out the attacks. They positioned themselves in triangulated locations near the end of the route the protesters planned to take.

The police had three people in custody and were negotiating in the early-morning hours with a fourth, who was in a garage in downtown Dallas at the El Centro community college.

A fourth Dallas gunman has reportedly killed himself with a shot to the head https://t.co/MbwAKHvPJr pic.twitter.com/2xJiSP5kfX

— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) July 8, 2016