5 dead in Las Vegas ambush shooting
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TWO police officers having lunch were fatally shot in a point-blank ambush by a man and woman, who then fled to a nearby Wal-Mart where they killed a third person and then themselves in an apparent suicide pact, United States authorities said yesterday.
One of the shooters yelled, “This is a revolution!” but a motive is still being investigated, Las Vegas police spokesman Larry Hadfield said.
The deadly rampage on Sunday in the shopping center northeast of the Las Vegas Strip took place in a matter of minutes. Police were called at 11:22am to the pizzeria, where one of the officers was able to fire back at his assailants.
Shots were reported five minutes later at a nearby Wal-Mart, where the shooters gunned down a person just inside the front door and exchanged gunfire with police before killing themselves, police said.
The female suspect shot the male suspect before killing herself, police said. The Wal-Mart victim’s identity hasn’t been confirmed, and the suspects’ names haven’t been released.
The attack at a CiCi’s Pizza restaurant killed Officers Alyn Beck, 41, and Igor Soldo, 31, both husbands and fathers.
“It’s a tragic day,” Sheriff Doug Gillespie said. “But we still have a community to police, and we still have a community to protect. We will be out there doing it with our heads held high, but with an emptiness in our hearts.”
Both officers were pronounced dead at University Medical Center. Beck had been with the department since 2001 and leaves behind a wife and three children. Soldo had been with the force since 2006 and is survived by a wife and baby, police said.
Sunday’s killings come less than a year after the Las Vegas police department’s most recent on-duty death. Officer David VanBuskirk died while rescuing a stranded hiker by helicopter on July 22, 2013.
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