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Shootout leaves 2 officers dead
ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana (CNN) -- Two police officers were killed and four others injured in a Thursday afternoon shootout with a man locked inside a house near a school, sources said. Rapides Parish Coroner Dr. Wesley Dyer confirmed the deaths of the two officers and also said the suspect was killed. Dyer said the four injured officers were taken to two area hospitals in the central Louisiana city of Alexandria. He said the gunman may have had an automatic weapon. On Wednesday, a man fired on an officer when he responded to a false report of a burglary. Local media reports the suspect in Thursday's shootout is believed to be the man who fired on the officer a day before. The officer was not hurt but his squad car was hit with at least 20 bullets. The suspect's home, which was surrounded by police cars and officers Thursday, is just across the street from the Rapides Parish Motivational and Adult Education Center. Rapides Parish School Superintendent Dr. Patsy Jenkins said the school was locked down and everyone there was secured in an interior room while the shooting was going on. At nearby Alma Redwine Elementary School, Jenkins said, all the students were taken out a back door to waiting buses and driven to an office building downtown, where they were released to their parents. Jenkins said both schools followed procedure set up in the district's "When Lightning Strikes" program, which was created to deal with emergency and terrorist situations.
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