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Coeur d'Alene police sergeant Greg Moore was making a
suspicious person check on Tuesday morning when the man opened
fire, said police.
The man then drove off in Moore's patrol car and led officers of
a neighboring city on a high-speed chase, Post Falls Police
Chief R. Scot Haug told reporters.
The car was abandoned and officers, assisted by a police dog,
found a man hiding under a truck and arrested him.
Moore, a 16-year veteran, died around 5:50 p.m. local time,
police said.
The shooting comes a day after a New York City plainclothes
police officer died from a gun shot wound to the head suffered
during a confrontation with a suspect over the weekend.
Coeur d'Alene is a small town of about 45,000 residents some 34
miles (55 km) east of Spokane, Washington.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Andrew
Heavens)
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