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St. Louis Police
Chief Sam Dotson said the officer was shot when a silver-colored
car pulled up next to his cruiser at an intersection and someone
opened fire before speeding away. The wounded officer was
conscious and able to speak after the attack, Dotson said.
The attack in Missouri occurred hours after a similar ambush in
San Antonio, Texas, where a police detective was fatally shot as
he sat in his patrol car writing a ticket for a traffic
violation.
As was the case in Texas, the St. Louis officer was shot before
he had time to react, Dotson said. The incident occurred in an
area called St. Louis Hills, a normally quiet, well-manicured
residential neighborhood in the Missouri city of some 315,000
residents on the western bank of the Mississippi River.
The precise circumstances of the shooting remained unclear, and
police did not offer a possible motive for the attack.
The wounded officer was said to be a father of three, but his
name was not immediately disclosed publicly.
(Reporting by Greg Bailey in St. Louis; Writing by Steve Gorman;
Editing by Paul Tait & Simon Cameron-Moore)
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