3 Pittsburgh Police Officers dead after shooting
A man opens fire on police officers in Pittsburgh, killing three of them. Friends say the man feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.
Three Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police officers became the first department fatalities since 1995 Saturday morning while responding to a domestic dispute call, Police Chief Nathan Harper said. “We have never had to lose three officers in the line of duty at one time at one call,” Harper said. Suspect Richard Poplawski surrendered around 11 a.m. outside the Stanton Heights home he shares with his mother after a standoff that lasted nearly four hours and left two more officers injured. Wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with an AK-47, a long rifle and a pistol, Poplawski fired about 100 rounds during the standoff, Harper said. – From CNN