A yet-to-be-identified gunman has shot two cops and a paramedic dead while responding to a domestic incident yesterday in Burnsville, Minnesota, United States, Africa Today News, New York reports.
Africa Today News, New York reports that cases of mass shooting has become common in many states in the United States of America in recent times.
Following a domestic abuse incident, when a shooter holed himself inside a home with a lady and seven children before firing on the three and then turning a pistol on himself, the gunman killed the two police officers and the paramedic during an hour-long standoff, according to the Star Tribune.
According to the newspaper, shortly before two in the morning, police arrived at the house in the 12600 block of 33rd Avenue S. and made an effort to speak with the occupants.
According to the report, three officers and a forty-year-old fire medic were hit by gunfire that broke out some hours later while he was tending to one of the injured.
The name of the deceased are officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge, both 27, and firefighter/paramedic, Adam Finseth, 40.
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Police Sgt. Adam Medlicott was hospitalized with gunshot wounds but is expected to survive, according to a Burnsville news release.
According to the CNN, the other family members were able to leave the home and were safe.
A total of seven children between the ages of two and 15 were in the home, Superintendent Drew Evans of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Investigation said during a news conference Sunday. He said the 911 call came from someone in the home.
The unidentified man had “several guns and a large amount of ammunition,” when he shot at police “from multiple positions in the home,” Evans said.
Multiple firearms were recovered from the residence, he added.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz during a news conference said Minnesota mourned the deceased.
“We must never take for granted the bravery and sacrifices our police officers and first responders make every day. My heart is with their families today and the entire State of Minnesota stands with Burnsville,” Walz said.
The governor added flags would be flown at half-staff across Minnesota on Monday and the state Department of Public Safety is “coordinating with local law enforcement to conduct an investigation.”