3 police officers shot dead, 3 more wounded in Louisiana.

3 officers dead, 3 more wounded shooter was Missouri man, sources say....

• A Missouri man ambushed and killed three law officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge on Sunday during a time when police nationwide and in the Louisiana city in particular have been on high alert after five officers were killed in a Dallas ambush July 7. Watch video after the cut.
  
  
  Louisiana State Police announced last week that they had received credible threats of lethal plots against Baton Rouge police and had arrested three men and a 13-year-old boy.
  On Sunday, a man identified as Gavin Long of Kansas City went on a shooting rampage on his 29th birthday that left two police officers and a sheriff's deputy dead, police sources said. Long, who was African-American, was a former Marine who spent time in Iraq and was discharged at the rank of sergeant in 2010, according to the U.S. military.
  Police have not released the names of the victims but one was identified by family members as Officer Montrell Jackson, according to Jackson's aunt. "Today isn't going too well," she said.
  
  
  
  Baton Rouge Officer Montrell Jackson was killed during a firefight in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Sunday morning.
  Montrell Jackson had posted on Facebook on July 8 how physically and emotionally drained he had been since protests had erupted in Baton Rouge after the July 5 killing of Alton Sterling by police. He stressed his disappointment at "some family, friends, and officers for some reckless comments."
  "But hey, what's in your heart is in your heart. I still love you all because hate takes too much energy, but I definitely won't be looking at you the same," the post read.
  "I swear to God I love this city, but I wonder if this city loves me. In uniform I get nasty, hateful looks and out of uniform some consider me a threat. I've experienced so much in my short life and these last 3 days have tested me to the core. When people you know begin to question your integrity, you realize they don't really know you at all. ... These are trying times. Please don't let hate infect your heart."
  Calls for end to violence
  Police officers who responded to Sunday's shootings killed Long in a gunbattle after the other officers were ambushed, police sources told CNN.
  Two of those who died were Baton Rouge police officers, said Police Chief Carl Dabadie. The gunman also killed a sheriff's deputy and critically wounded a deputy who is "fighting for his life," said East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Sid Gautreaux.
  Another wounded deputy and police officer have non-life-threatening wounds, law officers said.
  Quinyetta McMillon, mother of Sterling's son Cameron, put out a statement through her lawyers condemning the ambush.
  "We are disgusted by the despicable act of violence today that resulted in the shooting deaths of members of the Baton Rouge law enforcement. My family is heartbroken for the officers and their families. ... We reject violence of any kind directed at members of law enforcement or citizens.
  My hope is that one day soon we can come together and find solutions to the very important issues facing our nation rather than continuing to hurt one another."
  source cnn.com