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Eight police officers who were part of a US Marshals Task Force were shot today in North Carolina. Three of the officers have died and one more is said to be in critical condition. The suspect was shot by officers and killed but they believe there was a second shooter inside the house.
Around 1:30 p.m., members of the task force went to the 5000 block of Galway Drive to serve a warrant on a person for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Johnny Jennings, the chief of police for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, said at a news conference Monday evening.
When they approached the person, the shooter fired at them. The officers returned fire and struck the person, who was later pronounced dead in the front yard of the residence. The police did not release the name of the shooter or any of the law enforcement officers.
As police approached the shooter, Chief Jennings told reporters, the officers were met with more gunfire from inside the home. Two people inside were taken to the station as “persons of interest,” and one of them was a 17-year-old, Chief Jennings said.
So it sounds like a felon decided to die rather than surrender his guns and when police killed him either his son or his wife decided to continue shooting. If there is some other motive for all of this, no one is reporting it yet. The shootout lasted at least 30 minutes:
Witness Tyler Wilson told CBS News he was working at home when he heard police shout for the suspect to come out of the house.
