Alleged drug dealers shot an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) on Thursday in what was described as an ambush during a drug buy operation conducted in the Chicago area. The gunmen shot the agent twice. Agents returned fire, killing one.
Thirty-six-year-old San Antonio Police Officer Miguel Moreno died Friday morning from a gunshot wound received the day before. Moreno was shot as he got out of his car to question a reported suspicious person.
A North Texas police officer was shot and killed on Tuesday while responding to a call about a man with a gun. He is the third peace officer to die from a gunshot wound in less than three weeks into the new year.
A St. Louis County police officer was shot and killed in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday morning shortly after arriving at a reported domestic disturbance. The suspect was shot and remains in critical condition.
A New Mexico police officer was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop. The officer had unknowingly stopped a pair of fugitives wanted for murder in Ohio.
Two men from Texas have been arrested in connection with the shooting of two Lewisburg, West Virginia police officers. The alleged motivation for the police shooting appears to be an attempt to prevent the discovery of two dead bodies being transported in the suspect’s pickup truck.
