Baton Rouge police killer: An ex-Marine from Kansas City

Baton Rouge Police Department Officer Matthew Gerald (left) and Brad Garafolo, a deputy with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, were killed Sunday.

Col. Mike Edmonson made the comments Monday morning. Officers said he was wearing a mask and body armor, and was covered in all black. “We do believe that the person that shot and killed our officers-that he is the person who was shot and killed at the scene”.

He urged listeners to question their “mindsets” and fight back, insisting that protests alone don’t work.

A Jackson County, Kansas court document showed that Long successfully applied to have his name legally changed to Cosmo Ausar Setepenra. The man describes himself as a “Freedom Strategist, Mental Game Coach, Nutritionist, Author and Spiritual Advisor”.

Just days before he was shot and killed Sunday morning, a Baton Rouge police officer posted an emotional Facebook message saying he was “physically and emotionally” exhausted and expressing how hard it was to be both a police officer and a black man, a friend said Sunday. The man also discusses the protests in Baton Rouge and what he perceived as oppression. It doesn’t – it has never worked and it never will. You got to fight back. “That’s the only way a bully knows to quit”. He would not say how many or give details and stressed that the interviews do not mean that those people were involved in the shooting.

Oren Segal, director of the Center on Extremism for the Anti-Defamation League, said there was no information linking Long, who was black, to any known extremist group or movement, but the ADL and others were investigating Long’s possible use of aliases.

Long, who was black, served in the Marines from 2005 to 2010, reaching the rank of sergeant.

A police spokesperson told the AP that two “persons of interest” had been apprehended near Baton Rouge in the aftermath of the shooting, according to USA Today.

When police arrived, the shooting began.

Customers were buying coffee and breakfast sandwiches Monday at a B-Quik convenience store near where officers first engaged the gunman less than 24 hours earlier. Next door, workers prepared for the day at a vehicle wash where the gunman was cornered.

Businesses on two sides of the scene of a gunbattle were riddled with at least eight apparent gunshots.

Long received several awards, including the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal and Navy Unit Commendation Medal.

CBS News reported Long was a former Marine and served as a Data Network Specialist.

University of Alabama spokesman Chris Bryant said Long also attended the University of Alabama for one semester, in the spring of 2012.

“I can’t explain what brought us here”, she said.

He had a wife and two daughters, Poe said, and was devoted to them. In addition, a 41-year-old city police officer and a 51-year-old sheriff’s deputy suffered non-life-threatening injuries, while a 41-year-old sheriff’s deputy was still in critical condition following surgery.

The recording lasts about 17 minutes and includes urgent calls for an armored personnel carrier called a BearCat. He appeared to be running “from an altercation”.

Several police officers have been shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with three confirmed dead. But the name of the third wounded officer hasn’t been released. Clark says an autopsy on the deceased suspect is planned for Tuesday.

The warning, issued by the FBI’s New Orleans field office on July 7, mentioned “threats to law enforcement and potential threats to the safety of the general public” stemming from the July 5 shooting of Alton Sterling. A video of the incident captured by witnesses shows Sterling on the ground with two officers kneeling over him.

For example, Obama rebuked advocates for police reform in his speech at a memorial for the five officers killed in Dallas last week.

His death, along with another fatal police shooting in Minnesota last week, sparked protests and heightened tensions in Baton Rouge. The officer was seriously wounded, and the suspect fled and apparently killed himself, authorities said.