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St. Louis cop ambushed, shot in face twice while sitting in traffic, shooter at largeBY Nicole HensleyNEW YORK DAILY NEWSSunday, November 20, 2016, 10:15 PMA 46-year-old St. Louis cop was ambushed and shot in the face — twice — while sitting in his cruiser late Sunday, authorities said.The sergeant with St. Louis Police Department was waiting for traffic to move when the assailant drove next to his vehicle and opened fire. He was rushed to a nearby hospital in critical conditions, according to St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officials.The shooter has not been identified and is at large.Continued: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/st-louis-ambushed-shot-face-sitting-traffic-article-1.2881487
This must have just happened and earlier, we had the incident in San Antonio. I hope the officer survives and recovers.
Suspect in shooting of St. Louis police officer killed in shootout By Christine Byers, Jeremy Kohler and Jesse Bogan St. Louis Post-Dispatch 35 min agoST. LOUIS • A man being sought as a suspect in the shooting of a St. Louis police officer Sunday night was shot and killed in a shootout with police early Monday.Undercover officers had found the suspect's car abandoned at a parking garage at Laclede's Landing, police said. A woman had picked him up there and officers tracked their vehicle to the intersection of Smiley and Leola avenues in St. Louis. The suspect, about 19 years old, apparently realized he was being followed, jumped out of the car and fired a shot at the officers, striking the windshield of their pickup truck.The suspect ran and officers pursued. He was killed in front of a house about 100 yards up the street, police said, about 12:45 a.m.The suspect's identity was not immediately released. The woman was in custody.He was being sought for questioning in the shooting of a St. Louis police sergeant about 7:30 p.m. Sunday near Hampton and Pernod avenues. A driver had pulled up next to the sergeant's SUV and opened fire.“He was targeted because he was a police officer,” Mayor Francis Slay said at a press conference at Barnes Jewish Hospital. “He didn’t stop anybody. He didn’t point a gun at anybody."Police said the sergeant, 46, had been shot twice in the face and was conscious. He was in critical but stable condition and expected to live. He is a 20-year veteran of the department.The shooting in St. Louis comes on the same day that a police officer in San Antonio was shot to death while writing a ticket. Also, a police officer in Sanibel, Fla., was shot and wounded as he conducted a traffic stop Sunday evening. And late Sunday, a police officer and a suspect were shot during a traffic stop about 10:30 p.m. in the Kansas City suburb of Gladstone, Mo. ...
