3 police killed, 2 hurt in Pittsburgh shootout
 

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Three police officers were shot dead and two more wounded Saturday as they responded to a domestic disturbance call at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, home where a man wearing a bullet-proof vest opened fire, police said.

The officers had been called out to the house following reports of a disturbance, but came under fire from a man inside, triggering an hours-long standoff.

"Our hearts and our prayers go out to the officers who paid the ultimate sacrifice," Police Chief Nathan Harper said in a televised press conference.

"It's a very sad day for the city of Pittsburgh."

Harper said the shooter was a 23-year-old man who fired at officers several dozen times using a high-powered assault rifle before he was finally wounded and then surrendered.

"He had one assault rifle and one long-arm rifle as well as one pistol and a lot of ammo," Harper had said earlier.

The first officers where shot immediately upon entering the house, leading Harper to say he believed they were victims of a trap set by the gunman.

"As soon as the officer stepped through the doorway he was immediately met with gunfire," Harper said. He and a second officer who came through the doorway were both shot in the head.

The burst of violence comes just a day after a jobless immigrant stormed an immigrant services center where he had been learning English in Binghamton, New York and went on a murderous rampage, killing 13 people before shooting himself to death.

ouch. I hate guns *pew pew*

Its more calm in canada

canada is a big forest

forest of awesome :pimp

damn! That is craziness! Sorry for the loss of loved ones of the officers :(

a good example of relaxed cops never relax on duty i really dont like police but i wouldn't wish death on anybody

Wonder if they will march in the streets of Pittsburgh for this cop killer like they did for the one in Oakland.

Fuck them stupid pigs what the fuck are they doing bothering a white man for?

domestic disturbance are some of the hardest calls for cops to handle

how you know:1orglaugh u dont like police :1orglaugh

I can't believe that he was able to Surrender.. I would think they would kill him. Must be honest cops or the media was around

i dont give a fuck i would have turn his ass into a pencil their dead fuck going by the book at that point

Sad. Poor families.

Wow, too fucked up.

http://kdka.com/local/officers.shot.....2.975820.html
Friends said 23 year-old Richard Poplawski feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.
These pundits work this people up and dont realize the damage they truly do.

great, what's next. The baby massacre at the McDonald's play land. I'm all out of care...

Lol so pundits are the cause of this? Omfg I heard it all now. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Damn.This is fucked up !!

sad story,too bad these things happen all the time and all over the world

jesus god

I read that he had a bulletproof vest on that ended up stopping a lot of shots, so I'm sure they tired to kill his ass and couldn't get a head shot in...

WHAT? :1orglaugh

lol.. what a mindless thing to say... Next time a greenpeace activist blows up a gas station maybe we could blame it on Al Gore... You re the one being manipulated by the media.. and clueless about it..

even if someone is wearing a bulletproof vest, getting shot still hurts like a mother fucker, it isn't like in the movies where the vest stops the bullet and that's it. The bullet has kinetic energy behind it, and when the vest stops it, that energy is dissipated into the vest/person wearing the vest. So if the cops unloaded on him, but the bullets never penetrated the vest, it would still mess him up, like maybe if he got kicked in the body, hard, several times, leaving big bruises and broken/cracked ribs.

Damn not good.

Good .

PITTSBURGH – A 911 call that brought two police officers to a home where they were ambushed, and where a third was also later killed during a four-hour siege, was precipitated by a fight between the gunman and his mother over a dog urinating in the house.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090406/...0Es5RAgDW 7oF

Unbelievable. My heart goes out to the officers families and coworkers.