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Three Dead, Three Wounded in Tennessee Shooting
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) - A man began shooting at police officers and firefighters responding to a blaze in his home on Wednesday in an incident that left three dead and three wounded.
The gunman emerged either from the burning home or an adjacent garage firing a ``long gun,'' and he was shot when he refused to put down the weapon, police said.
A sheriff's deputy and a firefighter were fatally shot, and firefighters later found the body of a woman inside the charred home. She had also been shot.
Another firefighter was critically wounded by the gunman and a woman bystander was shot in the face, said Memphis Police Inspector Richard Sojourner.
It was the latest outbreak of gun violence in the United States. Last week alone, a Pennsylvania gunman killed three people and wounded two others, and a 6-year-old Michigan boy killed a female classmate.
The gun battle took place in an upscale residential neighborhood of trim single-family homes, some with swimming pools.
Police said the Shelby County deputy and the firefighters were responding to a call of domestic violence and a report of a fire at the home
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) - A man began shooting at police officers and firefighters responding to a blaze in his home on Wednesday in an incident that left three dead and three wounded.
The gunman emerged either from the burning home or an adjacent garage firing a ``long gun,'' and he was shot when he refused to put down the weapon, police said.
A sheriff's deputy and a firefighter were fatally shot, and firefighters later found the body of a woman inside the charred home. She had also been shot.
Another firefighter was critically wounded by the gunman and a woman bystander was shot in the face, said Memphis Police Inspector Richard Sojourner.
It was the latest outbreak of gun violence in the United States. Last week alone, a Pennsylvania gunman killed three people and wounded two others, and a 6-year-old Michigan boy killed a female classmate.
The gun battle took place in an upscale residential neighborhood of trim single-family homes, some with swimming pools.
Police said the Shelby County deputy and the firefighters were responding to a call of domestic violence and a report of a fire at the home
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