Dallas suspect dead after stand-off as city remains in lockdown
Police traded fire with the suspect into the early hours of Friday at a parking garage
A suspect in the Dallas shooting that killed five police officers has died after a tense stand-off with police in a downtown garage, US media reported Friday, citing law enforcement sources.
Another seven police officers and two civilians were shot on what media called the deadliest day for law enforcement since September 11, 2011.
CNN cited a police source as saying that the suspect was killed, though some local media outlets said the suspect had shot himself.
Police traded fire with the suspect into the early hours of Friday the garage. CNN reported that a SWAT team of elite police marksmen and bomb-sniffing dogs had been deployed to the scene and stun grenades were used.
Police Chief David Brown said earlier that the suspect had “told our negotiators that the end is coming, and he is going to hurt and kill more of us, meaning law enforcement. And that there are bombs all over the place in this garage and in downtown”.