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| Police officers shot & wounded in Missouri, Georgia the morning after Dallas attack | |
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| The morning after five police officers were fatally shot in Dallas, Texas, a police officer was shot in the St. Louis suburb of Ballwin, Missouri. | The morning after five police officers were fatally shot in Dallas, Texas, a police officer was shot in the St. Louis suburb of Ballwin, Missouri. |
| The wounded officer was taken by ambulance to the Mercy Hospital emergency room, according to reporter Mike Colombo. | The wounded officer was taken by ambulance to the Mercy Hospital emergency room, according to reporter Mike Colombo. |
| The officer was shot in the neck during a traffic stop, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Christine Byers reported. The suspect is in custody after a foot chase. | The officer was shot in the neck during a traffic stop, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Christine Byers reported. The suspect is in custody after a foot chase. |
| A weapon was recovered. Police described the suspect as a tall, thin African-American male wearing a gray T-shirt and blue jeans, and driving a blue Ford Taurus with Illinois temporary tags, according to KTVI. | |
| The Ballwin officer is at least the second to have been shot in the US on Friday morning. An officer in Valdosta, Georgia was injured in an exchange of gunfire with a suspect. The officer was investigating a report of a damaged vehicle when a man opened fire, which the officer returned, police said. Both men were injured and are expected to survive. The Valdosta officer was shot “multiple times,” Police Chief Brian Childress said, as quoted by AP. | |
| "He is out of surgery now. His family is at the hospital. And I'm happy to report he's going to be fine," Childress said. "He's in stable condition but he's in the ICU as a precaution." | |
| The officer was wearing a body camera, and its footage has been turned over the the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the police chief said. |