Eugene Long

Two Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD) officers and one East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy were killed in the shooting, while three others, a police officer and two sheriff's deputies (Police Officer Chad Montgomery was grazed by a single bullet in the head, Sheriff's Deputy Cpl. Nicholas Tullier was shot and wounded three times in the head, abdomen and upper arm (Tullier later succumbed to his injuries on 05-05-2022 ), and Sgt. Bruce Simmons was hit once in the left arm) were injured.

The injured were transported to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, which said it received five patients from the shooting, three of whom later died from multiple gunshot wounds.

Of the surviving two, one was in critical condition, being on life support as of August 3, and the other in fair condition.

The third injured officer was transported to Baton Rouge General Medical Center and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

On July 17, 2016, Gavin Eugene Long shot six police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in an ambush attack, in the wake of the shooting of Alton Sterling.

Four died, including one who was critically wounded and died from complications in 2022, and two others were hospitalized; of the officers who initially died, two were members of the Baton Rouge Police Department, while the third worked for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office.

Long, who associated himself with organizations linked to black separatism and the sovereign citizen movement, was shot and killed by a SWAT officer during a shootout with police at the scene.

The shooting occurred during a period of unrest in Baton Rouge, though it is unclear if the events are related.

Baton Rouge was experiencing ongoing protests following the officer-involved Killing of Alton Sterling less than two weeks before on July 5.

On July 7, the FBI's New Orleans field office issued a warning about "threats to law enforcement and potential threats to the safety of the general public" stemming from the death of Sterling.

Within the previous week, four suspects were arrested in connection with an alleged plot to kill Baton Rouge police officers, which was described as a credible threat by law enforcement officials.

Ten days earlier, five police officers were killed in a mass shooting in Dallas.

[[File:2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers map of area around Airline Highway Baton Rouge, LA.png|thumb|250px|Map of area around [[Airline Highway]] near I-12. Hammond Aire Plaza, where Long began the shooting sometime before 8:40 a.m.

The area around B-Quik convenience store and Hair Crown Beauty Supply where Long shot six police officers, killing three, until he was shot and killed by SWAT at 8:48 a.m.

The Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters, where protests in response to the police Killing of Alton Sterling took place in the weeks prior to the shooting by Long.]]

Long arrived at Hammond Aire Plaza, a shopping complex on Airline Highway, sometime before 8:40 a.m. CT and began scouting the area in search of police officers.

He first spotted a police patrol vehicle parked at a B-Quik convenience store; it belonged to a sheriff's deputy who was working security in the area.

Long parked his vehicle behind an adjacent building, got out, and prepared to shoot, but found that the vehicle was empty.

He then drove north and noticed a police officer washing his vehicle a short distance away, but the officer left before Long could get close.

By 8:40a.m., police received a call about a suspicious person carrying a rifle near the plaza.

However, due to Louisiana's open carry law at the time, the potential threat of Long was downplayed, with one dispatcher describing him as a "subject walking with a coat and an assault rifle."

Authorities were going to question him and had no probable cause to take him into custody.

When officers arrived at the scene, they found Long clad in black and wearing a face mask behind the Hair Crown Beauty Supply store on the 9600 block of Airline Highway.

Shots were reportedly fired two minutes later.

Another two minutes afterwards, there were reports that officers were down.

According to investigators, Long fired upon the first responding officers, fatally wounding three.

He first shot and killed a police officer, and shot and wounded his partner who fell to the ground.

A third officer tried to help the wounded policeman, but Long engaged him in a gunfight as he approached, and killed him with multiple gunshot wounds.

Long then shot the first wounded officer twice more, killing him as well.

Long then turned around and shot another police officer standing outside a store and then moved to another part of the complex, where he shot and wounded two sheriff's deputies who were investigating his car.

At 8:46a.m., he was reported to be near Benny's Car Wash.

Officers fired on Long from behind the cover of patrol cars.

Eventually, a SWAT team responded to the scene; one member took aim at Long from about 100 yd away and killed him at about 8:48a.m. Louisiana State Police said Long was the only person involved in the shooting.

The entire shooting lasted for less than ten minutes.

Officers used a robot to check Long's body for explosives.

A preliminary investigation determined that Long was targeting officers and ignoring civilians.

A preliminary autopsy indicated that in addition to being shot by the SWAT officer, Long suffered multiple other gunshot wounds.

Police recovered from the crime scene an IWI Tavor SAR 5.56x45-caliber semi-automatic rifle and a Springfield Armory XD 9mm pistol.

A third weapon—a Stag Arms M4-type 5.56-caliber semi-automatic rifle—was recovered from Long's rental Malibu.

Officials believed Long had intentions of attacking the Baton Rouge police headquarters and continuing to kill officers.