DEVELOPING: Police arrested five people for allegedly shooting at officers in Washington, D.C., early Tuesday, officials said. No injuries were reported.
The group allegedly fired at police to avoid arrest, not as part of a targeted attack on cops, a police official told The Washington Post.
Officers in marked police cruisers were responding to reports of gunshots just after midnight in southeast Washington, D.C., near Martin Luther King Elementary School when the cops were shot at by people inside an SUV, police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said.
Police returned fire at the suspects, who barricaded themselves in the vehicle, Sternbeck said. Officers ordered the group to come out, but they refused.
After about 30 minutes, three women and two men in the SUV surrendered to authorities. None of the five had been publicly identified as of Tuesday morning.
The investigation will include whether the individuals who were arrested may have been involved in any other crimes before police arrived.
Police were initially alerted to the area by the ShotSpotter system, WTOP reported. ShotSpotter uses sensors to detect gunfire around the city and then notifies authorities if anything is picked up.
Tuesday’s incident follows protests over police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota and the fatal shooting of five police officers by anti-cop anti-white assailant in Dallas last week.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/12/police-arrest-5-people-suspected-firing-shots-at-officers0.html
range time people….. PRACTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!
A GUN IS ONLY AS EFFECTIVE AS THE PERSON WIELDING IT….GET OUT AND SHOOT!!!!!
IF YOU CANT HIT WITH YOUR WEAPON, YOU ARE INVITING DEATH, AND COURTING THE WORST OF RIGHTS INFRINGMENTS… THE LOSS OF YOUR LIFE………KOYOTE
Even if you are currently proficient with rifles, shotguns and handguns, it does not help for you to become complacent. As the above post states, practice anyway. Be sure to quickly replace any ammo expended during practice. I say quickly, as events could rock out of control, as early as Friday.