2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers
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On July 17, 2016, Gavin Eugene Long shot six police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in an ambush attack,[9] in the wake of the shooting of Alton Sterling. Four died, including one who was critically wounded and died from complications in 2022, and two others were hospitalized; of the officers who initially died, two were members of the Baton Rouge Police Department, while the third worked for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office.[10] Long, who associated himself with organizations linked to black separatism and the sovereign citizen movement,[11] was shot and killed by a SWAT officer during a shootout with police at the scene.
2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers | |
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Location | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. |
Coordinates | 30.4338°N 91.0817°W / 30.4338; -91.0817 |
Date | July 17, 2016 (2016-07-17) 8:42 – c. 8:48 a.m. (CDT) |
Target | Police officers in Baton Rouge |
Attack type | Ambush,[1] domestic terrorism,[2][3][4][5] shootout, mass shooting |
Weapons | |
Deaths | 5[lower-alpha 1] (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 2 |
Perpetrator | Gavin Eugene Long |
Motive | Backlash over police brutality against African Americans[lower-alpha 2] |
Litigation | Federal lawsuit against Black Lives Matter by Tullier dismissed |