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Authorities in Houston were searching for a suspect Thursday after three officers were shot, police said. The Houston Police Department said in a statement that the suspect fled a scene south of the city's downtown in a white Mercedes. The officers were in stable condition, the department said. A motive for the shooting also wasn't known, though NBC affiliate KPRC reported that it occurred after a pursuit. The incident involved multiple scenes, according to the station.

"Two Gilchrist County deputies were shot and killed inside a restaurant in Trenton after a suspect walked up to the business and fired at them through the window, according to the Gilchrist County Sheriff Bobby Schultz."

A grainy picture is starting to emerge of the suspects involved in the shootings Thursday morning that claimed the lives of two St. John Parish sheriff's deputies and injured two others. Five of them had apparently been under surveillance in DeSoto Parish in north Louisiana two months ago, and at least one of them was considered a fugitive in Nebraska and Kansas for "making terroristic threats" as well as allegedly selling marijuana. Authorities believe that suspect, Kyle Joekel, 29, may have ties to anti-government groups, in particular a loose organization known as Posse Comitatus that generally doesn't recognize authority above...

4 cops shot, suspect dead after Calif. traffic stop Police say suspect behind two separate shootings involving officers OAKLAND, Calif. - Four officers were in critical condition and a suspect dead on Saturday after gunfire at a traffic stop led to a massive manhunt that ended in a shootout, police said. Two officers were shot in the first incident just after 1 p.m. after they stopped the suspect's vehicle in east Oakland, said Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason. The suspect fled the scene on foot into a nearby neighborhood, police said, leading to an intense manhunt by dozens of Oakland...