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Mon Jan 28, 2019, 08:25 PM Jan 2019

At least three police officers shot in Houston

Source: Reuters

U.S. JANUARY 28, 2019 / 7:08 PM / UPDATED 17 MINUTES AGO

At least three police officers shot in Houston

(Reuters) - At least three Houston police officers were shot on Monday as they attempted to serve a search warrant, the city’s mayor and local media said.

The suspect in the shooting was also down, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said in a message on Twitter.

One of the officers was airlifted to a hospital, Houston Police Officers’ Union president Joe Gamaldi said in a separate tweet.

Gamaldi’s tweet said five officers were shot and Sylvester said at least three officers had been struck by gunfire.

Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles; editing by Dan Whitcomb and Cynthia Osterman


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-shooting/at-least-three-police-officers-shot-in-houston-idUSKCN1PN00B



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