CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Numerous law enforcement officers conducting a task force operation were shot Monday afternoon as they came under fire in Charlotte, North Carolina, police said. Officers from several agencies in the U.S. Marshals Task Force were carrying out an investigation in a suburban neighborhood when “a subject” began firing at them, the […]
Several officers on a task force trying to serve a warrant in a suburban Charlotte, North Carolina, neighborhood were shot Monday afternoon, police said.
Photos from the scene of an active shooting area on Galway Drive in east
It happened Monday afternoon on Galway Drive, near Julian Underwood Park.
The gunman was wanted for an attempted murder and armed robbery that occurred earlier in the week.
Authorities recovered an AR-15 rifle and .40-caliber handgun from the scene where four law enforcement officers were fatally shot in Charlotte, police said.
Three Kenner police officers were shot and wounded Sunday during a standoff with the suspect in two earlier shootings, according to the Kenner Police Department.
Around 1:30 p.m., the U.S. Marshals Task Force went to serve a warrant in the 5000 block of Galway Drive for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
The Metropolitan Police Department has lost more than 1,400 D.C. officers since the Democrat-controlled district passed a controversial law in 2022.
A Chicago shooting left a police officer shot on the Southwest Side
Police say 23-year-old Giovanni Pacheco kicked and chocked an officer before the officer fired a shot at Pacheco following a Sunday afternoon traffic stop in east Greeley. Pacheco was taken to a hospital to treat minor injuries, then booked in to the Weld County Jail.
CHICAGO >> A 30-year-old Chicago police officer was shot and killed overnight on the city’s southwest side while heading home from work, police said Sunday.