Four Police Officers Shoot in Charlotte and killed while trying to serve a warrant at a home in Charlotte, North Carolina. Two local task force officers and a deputy US marshal were among the dead.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief, Johnny Jennings, said Monday night that four other Police Officers Shoot in Charlotte were shot during the episode.
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In Charlotte, North Carolina, four police officers were killed and four others were hurt while carrying out an arrest order.
After a three-hour battle, police said they found a person they thought was an attacker dead in the front garden of a house that had been blocked off.
The police chief told the press, “Today we lost some heroes who were just trying to keep our community safe.”
In the 30 years he had been a police officer, he said it was the worst attack on cops he could remember.
According to people who were there, shots were still being fired more than two hours after the attack started in an east city neighbourhood.
The attack stopped when police broke into the house on Galway Drive in the Shannon Park neighbourhood in armoured vehicles and broke windows and doors to get inside.
Arrington says that police still thought there might have been a second shooter, so they brought in an armoured car to help the injured officers get out of the building. They also watched what was going on from a window on the second floor.
Officers “used suppressive gunfire at two specific locations where the suspect was firing from to make it easier for our wounded officers to get away.” “From what we can see, there was no friendly fire in this case,” she said.
Arrington said the probe was very big and looked at video from body-worn cameras, 8,900 pictures, 65 interviews with police officers, and 765 pieces of physical evidence.
“This person was determined to kill police officers that day,” Arrington said.
It was Officer Joshua Eyer of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Weeks, and Sam Poloche and William Elliott of the North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections who were killed.
Chief Johnny Jennings, the police chief, said that his officers were still processing what he called “the saddest time in the history of our department.”
He said, “Some are doing better than others, but we’re still doing the work.
