It is one thing you’d by no means anticipate to see on a usually quiet Sunday afternoon. A shootout ensued between police and a needed homicide suspect. A gunfight came about in entrance of you.
Channel 2 reporter Larry Sproul He spoke to Corey Cloud on Sunday afternoon. Cloud recalled a chaotic second in a Jonesboro condo advanced as police tried to discover a harmful suspect.
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“There was a gentleman in his yard, a unadorned man with a gun, bent over a fence. He was begging me to open the door and let him in. The police got here by the entrance door and opened the again door. He instantly began taking pictures in the home. An officer shot and killed him. An officer shot and the officers shot him like 8 instances,” Cloud mentioned.
Information Drone 2 He flew over the scene on Sunday. Police tape seems within the yard, the place the taking pictures came about.
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Clayton County Police Chief Kevin Roberts confirmed Channel 2 motion information The person concerned within the taking pictures is needed for murder suspect Andre Longmore. “He was engaged by officers on the residence. After that contact, at the moment there was an change of fireplace that killed and injured the visiting officers. Roberts mentioned.
Police say Longmore shot and killed two Clayton County officers and a Henry County sheriff’s deputy in a taking pictures on Wagwheel Lane.
Investigators say all of it occurred round 10:45 a.m. Saturday morning in a mass taking pictures within the Dogwood Lakes subdivision in Hampton. That is when Longmore shot and killed 4 individuals close to his residence. He later stole an SUV and left the world.
Cloud informed Channel 2 Motion Information’ Larry Spruill that he knew what was happening, however by no means anticipated to be caught within the center, “as soon as the police opened the again door.” He instantly began making rounds in the home. There have been too many rounds of ammunition in such a small house. The one factor operating by my thoughts was am I shot? I used to be truly attempting to crawl behind the sofa as a result of there have been so many photographs directly. Claude mentioned.
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