Baton Rouge police say 2 officers, 1 suspect shot

As he exited the vehicle, Smith produced a rifle and began shooting at the two officers, striking both, police said. BRPD said the man who shot at police is in critical condition at an area hospital.

Baton Rouge police were called around 7 p.m. Friday to the 1600 block of Wooddale Court, where the shooter shot his 27-year-old wife and then fatally shot himself, according to a Baton Rouge Police Department news release Saturday morning.

“The gun went off between 10 and 20 times”, Walker said, describing the second round of shots she heard. The chase ended at the scene of the shooting. Their bullet injuries are not life threatening, Chief Carl Dabadie Jr. said.

A bullet grazed the head of one Baton Rouge police officer, and the other was struck in the side, The Advocate newspaper reported.

The shooter who opened fire on two policemen Saturday morning is now on probation on a 2014 charge of cruelty to a juvenile in East Baton Rouge, said Hillar C. Moore III, East Baton Rouge District Attorney. Chambers said he had been receiving treatment in Shreveport, and family was trying to get him into treatment in Baton Rouge.

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.

Dozens of evidence markers were placed in the street, indicating the possible presence of shell casings and other evidence. She said he has a history of mental illness and had attempted suicide previously, but she had not noticed any unusual behavior recently. She said she didn’t know where Smith had obtained the rifle police say he used. He said at least one of the officers was wearing a body camera, but it wasn’t immediately known whether he was able to activate it before the confrontation took place.

Moore’s office will carry out an independent investigation. “I didn’t hear nothing but sirens, gunshots and tires squealing”.

“One more inch, and that officer’s dead”, Moore said of the first policeman.

Walker said she does not understand what would have made Smith fire at the officers.