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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Anyone have details about this officer shooting?

Posted: 8/14/2007 10:35:13 AM EDT

Dispatch put out a BOLO on it over the weekend but I have not heard a peep since then except for this short little blurb off one of the police websites.

BASTROP, La. -- A shootout at a hotel in the main square of this small northeastern Louisiana city left two police officers and one suspect dead Friday, and authorities were searching for another suspect, officials said.

Two paramedics were also hit by gunfire when they arrived at the scene, said Trooper Mark Dennis, a spokesman for the Louisiana State Police. One was in stable condition and the other was not seriously hurt, Dennis said.

It was not immediately clear what sparked the shooting, or whether the suspect was killed in the initial shootout or by officers who arrived later, Dennis said.

Shots were first fired around 1:30 p.m., Dennis said, and police entered the hotel around 4 p.m. Buildings in and around the hotel in this city of about 12,000 were sealed off.

Police searched the hotel and surrounding areas for a 26-year-old woman linked to a stolen car from Texas found at the hotel. The woman also is being investigated in a killing in Harris County, Texas, Dennis said.

The shooting happened in the city's main square, near the courthouse.

"I was sitting in my office about 1:30 and heard what I thought was somebody banging on a piece of tin," said Mark Rainwater, editor of the Bastrop Daily Enterprise newspaper.

A reporter sent to investigate dropped to the ground after hearing the gunfire. "I walked outside and saw him crawling, literally, across the street," Rainwater said.

Bastrop is about 100 miles east of Shreveport.

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Posted: 8/14/2007 11:45:54 AM EDT

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Tonya Smith was arrested a couple of days ago east of Houston.

Tonya Smith Captured

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Anyone have details about this officer shooting?

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