State Police Colonel Mike Edmonson says they’ve learned the gunman in the shooting that killed three officers was in Baton Rouge for a few days before showing up at Airline Highway on Sunday morning to execute his attack. Edmonson says they do believe that 29-year-old Gavin Long of Kansas City acted alone at the time of the shooting…
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Governor John Bel Edwards says Long came to Louisiana to harm our community.

There were also three officers injured in the attack. East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux said deputy Nicholas Tullier is in very, very critical condition. Gautreaux says another injured deputy, Bruce Simmons, was shot in the arm and a titanium rod was used to replace the bone that was shattered. Gautreaux praised the Baton Rouge City SWAT team for killing Long, before he took down more officers.

Members of a saddened Baton Rouge community set up an impromptu memorial outside the store where police officers were ambushed and three lost their lives. Halen Doughty has more…
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In other news…state senator Troy Brown is facing a domestic abuse charge in Ascension Parish. Sheriff Jeff Wiley says Brown was arrested at his Geismar residence after his wife called authortied and told them that the senator was irate and bit her on the forearm. Brown was also arrested eight months ago in New Orleans for allegedly punching a woman in the eye.