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The suspect
committed suicide moments after firing on officers who were
trying to serve him with an arrest warrant at a house in
Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller
told reporters.
The department identified the slain officer as Allen Lee Jacobs,
28, an Army veteran who served in Iraq before joining the force
in 2011.
"We lose, we hurt, we ache," Miller said. "In an instant, lives
can change forever."
Jacobs, whose job was to investigate gang activity, was among
several serving the warrant targeting a man police said was a
known and self-described gang member, Miller said.
The man ran down the street and the officers chased him until
the man opened fire, hitting Jacobs several times, Miller said.
The suspect then ran a short distance, called his mother, and
shot himself to death, Miller said. He had no further details on
the man's phone conversation.
Jacobs, a father of two boys, was expecting a baby girl with his
wife in July. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital, the
department said.
(Reporting by Karen Brooks in Fort Worth, Texas and Brendan
O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by James Dalgleish and Michael
Perry)
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