Standoff ends with four police dead as shooters open fire in North Carolina

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Three US Marshals are dead and a further five are injured after the three hour standoff ended with gunfire.

Three officers on a US Marshals task force serving a warrant for a person wanted for possessing a firearm were killed and five other officers were wounded in a shootout on Monday at a North Carolina home, police said.

One man was shot and killed by authorities in the front yard of the home, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police chief Johnny Jennings said. The US Marshals Task Force was on the scene where multiple officers were shot and killed “A lot of the questions that need to be answered, we don’t even know what those questions are now.

A woman and a 17-year-old male were found in the home, bringing the three-hour standoff to an end that had seen armoured vehicles crashing into the building of the suburban home, tearing off doorways and windows.The US Marshal Service confirmed one of its agents was killed and did not release a name.

 

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