[Cedar]

Sad day for law enforcement. Two other officers were hurt and taken to hospital in nearby Memphis.

[TNdandelion]

A third officer has been shot, as well.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[DCBryan1]

BREAKING: illegal immigrants involved. “Hispanic man dead on scene”.

[Mr. Wright]

Any chance the perpetrators were angry TEA Party members? Amish? NRA members? Militia? Heterosexuals? Christians? Catholics?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Is West Memphis the same sort of demographic area as East St. Louis?

[ExNewsExSpook]

Raw video of the shootout that ended the manhunt. From WMC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Memphis:

http://www.wmctv.com/global/category.asp?c=151146&clipId=&topVideoCatNo=15040&topVideoCatNoB=105461&topVideoCatNoC=117912&topVideoCatNoD=169582&topVideoCatNoE=106890&clipId=4802688&topVideoCatNo=undefined&autoStart=true

[machogirl]

http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-west-memphis-shot,0,192061.story

[TLI]

Hispanic? Doubtful.

Probably some middle aged white guy that doesn’t like the health care bill or something.

[Coldwater Creek]

One of those officers killed was the son of the West Memphis Chief of Police. Another was a relative.

[Sybeck1]

Sitting in memphis right now and first I heard of this. Both Andrew Clark SR and Ben Ferguson will hopefully be talking about this at 4 pm.

[Sybeck1]

http://www.wreg.com/

live streaming on TV

[Palladin]

May God be with the families of these brave men who died and/or were injured in the line of duty.

St. Michael the Archangel, please defend in the battle all our law enforcement personnel.

[kcvl]

2 police fatally shot in West Memphis, Arkansas

By Tom Watkins, CNN

May 20, 2010 3:20 p.m. EDT

(CNN) — Two police officers were fatally shot and another two were wounded Thursday in two separate shootings allegedly by the same suspects in West Memphis, Arkansas, police said.

The suspects, who were using an assault weapon, were themselves fatally shot.

The incident began around 11:40 a.m. (12:40 p.m. ET), when police made a traffic stop on a white minivan traveling eastbound on I-40 at Airport Road, said Inspector Bert Shelton, who is assigned to city hall for the West Memphis Police Department.

The occupant or occupants of the van shot two police officers and sped off, he said. One of the victims died at the scene; the other was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died, Shelton said. One of the two fatalities was the son of the city’s chief of police, he added.

A short time later and about a mile away, in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart, two deputies searching for the suspects came across a white minivan and were shot and wounded as they approached the vehicle, Shelton said.

“The suspects were using an assault rifle,” he said.

The suspects themselves were then fatally shot by other responding officers, he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/20/arkansas.2.police.killed/?hpt=T2