Two Baton Rouge Police Officers injured in shooting

District Attorney Hillar Moore says investigators will study video footage taken by the dashboard cameras in two police cruisers for evidence into a shooting in Baton Rouge early Saturday that left two officers and a suspect injured.

Officials at the Baton Rouge Police Department could not be reached for immediate comment.

He said one officer was white and the other, black.

Gina Chambers, who said she is Smith’s godsister, said he moved in with her on Fairfields Avenue when he came back to Baton Rouge in December after living for a time in Shreveport. Chambers said he had been receiving treatment in Shreveport, and family was trying to get him into treatment in Baton Rouge.

An official identifies Calvin Smith as the man that Baton Rouge police suspect shot two officers in a predawn gunbattle Saturday that ended up with Smith and the officers wounded.

Moore said Smith is on probation for a 2014 conviction in East Baton Rouge Parish for indecent behavior with a juvenile.

Chambers said Smith has history of mental illness and had attempted suicide previously. Sources say the suspect was on a tirade, tearing apart a vehicle in the driveway and got into a violent fight with the mom’s boyfriend.

Moore called the shooting an “ambush” on the officers. “Chambers said she didn’t know where Smith had obtained the rifle police say he used”.

Chambers said Smith has been taking medication for his condition, and she didn’t see any obvious signs of distress before the shooting.

Up to 50 shots were fired between the two officers and the suspect.

Smith suffered more serious injuries and was taken to the hospital and immediately brought into surgery.

The officers involved will be placed on paid administrative leave under standard procedure, police said.

Hope Walker, who said she’s a close friend of Smith’s, said she was staying with someone down the street when she heard three gunshots early Saturday morning.

The 31-year-old Starwood says “you could tell they were from different guns”. “I didn’t hear nothing but sirens, gunshots and tires squealing”. He did not release the names of the officers or the suspect.

The officers were responding to a call about property damage around 5:30 a.m. when they first spotted the suspect. “They were both within one inch of their lives”. A bullet grazed the head of one officer; the other officer was hit in the stomach but protected by his bulletproof vest. Both are expected to survive.