(Kathy Willens/AP)New York City officials were investigating whether a parolee’s anger at police led him to shoot and kill a veteran police officer in an early-morning ambush that authorities described as an assassination. Two other officers shot and killed Bonds, 34, about a block from the scene of the shooting after he drew a revolver, police said. Of those, 64 officers were fatally shot, a 41 percent increase from the previous year, according to the Memorial Fund. Nearly 1 in 3 officers fatally shot was killed in what were deemed to be ambush attacks. Ten days later, an attacker in Baton Rouge killed two police officers and a sheriff’s deputy before he was fatally shot by a sniper.

Source: Washington Post July 06, 2017 00:47 UTC