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    Gunman in armored car opens fire on Dallas police HQ, plants bombs

    Gunman in armored car opens fire on Dallas police HQ, plants bombs


    Gunman fires on Dallas police outside headquarters

    Published June 13, 2015 FoxNews.com




    DEVELOPINGA crazed gunman armed with an automatic weapon and a shotgun fired on officers outside Dallas Police Headquarters early Saturday morning before he was believed killed by a police sniper following an hours-long standoff.

    Dallas Police Chief David Brown said at press conference hours later that the gunman ranted in a 911 call about killing cops and came within seconds of doing so in the case of two officers.


    “We barely survived the intent of this suspect,” Brown said.


    He said it was extremely fortunate no officers were hurt.


    “Some officers say we were lucky, I say we were blessed,” the chief told reporters.


    Investigators found a package containing pipe bombs near the headquarters building and the suspect told police he had C-4 explosives in his armored van, Brown said. The package exploded as an Explosive Ordinance Robot picked it up.


    Brown described a harrowing scene at police headquarters when the gunman pulled up around 12:30 a.m. and began firing, first with an assault rifle and then with a shotgun.

    Bullets struck police squad cars, the inside of the building’s lobby and a second floor office. Brown said one officer avoided getting shot because he left his desk to get a soda.


    “This suspect meant to kill officers and took time to discharge that weapon multiple times,” Brown said.


    Police initially reported multiple gunmen, perhaps as many as four. Brown said detectives now believe the suspect acted alone. He said there was confusion because the suspect shot at officers from different locations, giving the impressing that others were involved.


    As officers returned fire the gunman fled in his vehicle, which appeared to have gun ports in the sides, ramming a police cruiser in the process.


    Officers chased the suspect 11 miles to the parking lot of a Jack in the Box in Hutchins near I-45. There police exchanged gunfire with the assailant before a stand-off ensued.


    Brown said the suspect called 911 and in a nearly five minute call ranted about the police.


    “It was very high pitch anger towards our police department, police officers,” Brown said.


    He said the rant was about how police had caused the suspect to lose custody of a child and that police had accused him of “being a terrorist.”


    Brown said the man was not on any terrorism watch list and the shooting did not appear to be terrorism-related.


    Brown said eventually a SWAT team was brought in to negotiate with the man. The gunman told police that he was injured, but authorities could not confirm any injuries, Fox4News.com reported.


    #breaking
    As the Explosive Ordinance Robot attempted to move one of the bags@DallasPD HQ, the bag exploded on its own #DallasPDShooting

    — Maj. Max Geron (@MaxDPD) June 13, 2015
    Brown said that during the “on-and-off” negotiations a police sniper shot out the engine block with a .50 caliber bullet to disable the vehicle.

    He said at 5:07 a.m., more than 4 hours into the stand-off, SWAT sniper shot at the suspect through the front windshield of the van apparently killing him.



    “They made the call and I believe it was the right call to stop his violence,” Brown said.


    The chief said the bomb robot was being used to confirm he was dead. He said the robot was deployed out of fear the van may be rigged with explosives.


    The suspect gave a name to police, identifying himself as James Boulware. “This the name given, however it has not been confirmed that this is the person we are talking to,” Brown said.


    He said the suspect hat three family violence cases against and “some kind of custody issue.” He said the man had threatened judges handling his cases, but had not acted on those threats.


    “His social media footprint is awfully concerning, but there’s no indication that he was planning this type of assault on a police facility,” Brown said.


    Police evacuated residents near police headquarters for several hourse.


    #BREAKING
    We are also investigating a suspicious package in a dumpster at the Northeast Substation #DallasPDShooting

    — Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) June 13, 2015

    Ladarrick Alexander and his fiancée, Laquita Davis, were driving back toward the police station to their nearby apartment when they heard 15 to 20 gunshots in quick succession.


    Seconds later, police could be seen swarming an unmarked van that appeared to have crashed into a police car, they said.


    They turned around and were parked outside the police perimeter about two blocks away, where they heard the sound of one detonation at about 4:30 am and smoke coming up in the air.


    Police headquarters is in a former warehouse district where a boutique hotel and several new apartment buildings have been opened.


    "We don't see too much going around here at all," Alexander said.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/13...lice-shooting/

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    Texas police say unclear if suspect in shooting attack killed in van

    1 hour ago


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    (Reuters) - A suspect believed responsible for planting bombs and firing automatic weapons outside Dallas Police headquarters early Saturday morning may have been shot and killed while holed up in his van, police said.

    Dallas Police Chief David Brown said police believed that snipers had shot the suspect through the windshield of his van, which has been surrounded in a fast food restaurant parking lot about 10 miles (16 km) south of Dallas.


    No police officers or civilians were injured in the incident, Brown said. Police have not identified the suspect.

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    Possible suspect in Dallas attack has criminal history

    Landon Haaf, WFAA-TV, Dallas-Fort Worth
    11:55 a.m. EDT June 13, 2015


    (Photo: Dallas County)


    DALLAS — The possible suspect in an armored van who attacked Dallas Police headquarters and led officers on a chase to Hutchins, Texas, told officers that he was the same man arrested on multiple charges in 2013, according to police.
    Dallas police said the suspect identified himself as James Boulware, but could not confirm the identity.

    Boulware was arrested on multiple assault charges in May of 2013, according to Lamar County Jail records. Records show Boulware was charged with one count of impeding a family member's breath or circulation and another count of causing bodily injury to a family member.

    That incident, which occurred in
    Paris, Texas
    , involved multiple threats of violence against family and community members.



    USA TODAY
    Police: Suspect in Dallas police attack shot, believed dead


    Dallas Police Chief David Brown said the suspect referenced a past incident with Dallas Police during initial negotiations in the standoff.

    "The suspect has told our negotiators that we took his child, accused him of being a terrorist, and that he's going to 'blow us up,'" Brown said. The suspect then cut off negotiations.


    Brown said a motive for Saturday's incident could not be confirmed.


    Boulware was transferred to Dallas County from Lamar County in his 2013 run-in with the law, jail records show.


    Brown said the suspect Saturday was specifically targeting police officers. "He planted five packages to explode on touch," Brown said. He added that, had an officer touched the explosives, they would not have survived.


    The suspect's vehicle was disabled at a Hutchins Jack-in-the-Box. Police used a bomb squad robot to examine the armored van.


    A sniper then shot through the windshield of the vehicle, Brown said. The suspect is believe to have been killed by that shot, police said.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...tory/71170484/

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    BREAKING NEWS
    ATTACK ON DALLAS POLICE

    Suspect had assault weapon, shotgun and pipe bombs

    Watch shootout | Police headquarters, vehicles shot up | Timeline: Shots rang out after midnight


    Dallas police HQ shooting: Suspect killed during standoff

    By Jason Hanna and Joe Sutton, CNN
    Updated 5:22 PM ET, Sat June 13, 2015
    | Video Source:CNN

    (CNN)A man unleashed a barrage of gunfire on Dallas' police headquarters and planted explosives outside the building early Saturday -- narrowly failing to wound anyone -- leading to a chase to a suburb that ended with SWAT officers killing him in his parked van at a restaurant parking lot.

    Police shot him through the windshield of the van about an hour before dawn after he made more threats, sometime after they chased him to the lot outside the Jack in the Box restaurant in the suburb of Hutchins, authorities said.

    But police didn't confirm his death until the early afternoon, with a bomb squad needing to inspect the vehicle after the suspect told them that the vehicle contained explosives.


    "We believe this suspect meant to kill officers," police Chief David Brown told reporters. "We barely survived the intentions of this suspect."


    Before he was shot, the suspect ranted to police by phone, giving his name and alleging police were responsible for his child having been taken from him, Brown said.


    The suspect in the vehicle said his name was James Boulware. Police said that they couldn't immediately confirm that it is the suspect's real identity.


    Police found a previous record of domestic violence by a man with that name.


    The attack began shortly after midnight, with the man firing an assault weapon and then a shotgun from the outside, riddling police cars and the windows of the headquarters, which sits across the street from a large apartment and office complex. Dallas Deputy Police Chief Gilberto Garza said at times the suspect was on foot as he fired an automatic rifle.


    "He was always in or just outside his van," the deputy chief said.



    Officers, staffers and perhaps others narrowly avoided being shot. The chief said rounds hit not only an occupied squad car but also the police headquarters' front lobby, its information desk and the building's second floor.

    One lobby staffer had just risen from a desk to get a soda -- and bullet holes there suggest that the worker would have been shot otherwise, Brown said.


    Bullets might have been whizzing near residents across the street, too. Rick Birt, who lives in the South Side on Lamar complex, was taking a phone video of the gunfire from his open apartment window.


    "I heard snaps overhead, so I could tell that was rounds coming in our direction," Birt, a former Marine, told CNN.



    Parts of the initial attack were caught on video by several people nearby, and the police chief said he believed the sounds indicated some of the gunfire came close to those making the recordings. But based on the suspect's calls to police, "we think he was specifically targeting police officers," Brown said.

    The attacker also planted at least one set of pipe bombs in a bag outside, designed to "explode upon touch," Brown said.


    Police returned fire and gave chase. Video recorded by a witness and aired on CNN shows the dark van ramming the nose of a police car before retreating in reverse.


    Chase, another shootout, and standoff


    After the shootout at police headquarters, the suspect called 911 and gave a four- to five-minute rant, accusing of police of being to blame for him losing custody of a child, Brown said.



    Attack on Dallas Police 15 photos

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    Police later found his number and called him back, eventually allowing SWAT officers to negotiate.

    Officers pursued the van to the restaurant parking lot in Hutchins -- roughly 13 miles southeast of the Dallas police headquarters -- and the man opened a van door and again shot at police, injuring no one, Brown said.


    After a gunfire exchange, police called the man for negotiations.



    Dallas police: Bomb exploded near headquarters 02:54

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    Shortly after 4:30 a.m. (5:30 a.m. ET), police used a .50-caliber rifle to hit the engine block, disabling the van, Brown said, because the man on the phone had been increasingly hostile and agitated. Police didn't want him to drive away and threaten anyone else, Brown said.

    About a half hour later, SWAT snipers shot the man through the van's front windshield, Brown said.



    Witness in Dallas police shooting describes the scene 03:16

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    The man had become increasingly angry and made threats before cutting off the negotiations, the chief said.

    The suspect claimed that the van contained C-4 plastic explosives, according to Brown.


    "They (SWAT officers) made the call, and I believe it's the right call ... to stop his violence," Brown said.


    Authorities found at least two more pipe bombs in the van, police said.


    Video from CNN affiliate KTVT showed an explosion near the van, after police said they would use "an explosive water charge" to neutralize any explosives inside.


    Early Saturday afternoon, KTVT footage showed the van was on fire.

    "During intentional detonation of susp(ect) ordnance, susp(ect) van caught fire and rounds are going off inside," Dallas police tweeted.

    Officer almost tripped on bomb, 'wouldn't have survived'


    Back outside headquarters, police found at least one package of pipe bombs. It was set to detonate upon touch, Brown said.

    "(An officer), during the searching, almost tripped over it. If he had touched it, he wouldn't have survived," Brown said.


    The package exploded when a bomb-squad robot tried to move it Saturday morning, police said.


    Dallas police posted a tweet showing that vehicles were damaged in the blast.



    Former Marine captured video

    The crackling sound of the Dallas shootout got the attention of Birt, the ex-Marine who lives across the street from the police headquarters with his wife.



    Dallas police under fire: 'It sounded like a jackhammer' 02:51

    PLAY VIDEO

    "We heard loud noises, my wife asked if I thought they were shots," he said. "I went over to the window and put one of them up. And we heard more shots being fired, and I turned to my wife and said,

    'Yeah, that's definitely gunfire.'"


    He got his cell phone and recorded video. After the van fled, police informed him and his wife that they and others to evacuate the building.


    Dallas police said the complex's residents might have to stay away for hours, since officers needed to determine whether more bombs were planted in the area.


    As for the suspect, investigators have no reason to believe the man had "any nexus to terrorism," Brown said.


    Investigators are looking into whether a van sold in Newnan, Georgia, on eBay last week may be the van used in the Dallas attack, a source familiar with the investigation said. They are investigating, among other things, who may have purchased the vehicle.


    Witnesses initially indicated up to four people attacked the Dallas police building. But Brown said investigators concluded that only one person was involved and that witnesses were describing the same person at different times and locations.


    http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/13/us/dallas-police-headquarters-shooting/index.html

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