Two police officers and a medical first responder were shot and killed Sunday around 5:30 a.m. while responding to a domestic situation in Burnsville, Minnesota.
The AP posted to X:
BREAKING: Two police officers and one first responder were shot and killed while responding to a domestic abuse call in a Minneapolis suburb. https://t.co/D2d2ZqvX0U
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 18, 2024
The Minneapolis Star said a third officer was wounded in the incident.
Details on the incident are scant at this time, but a “law enforcement source says that police were called to a residence on a domestic incident when shots were fired,” the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.
A SWAT vehicle on scene “had multiple bullet holes visible on its windshield,” WCCO reported.
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