{"id":26638,"date":"2024-04-29T02:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T07:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26638"},"modified":"2024-04-29T02:56:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T07:56:09","slug":"gunman-shoots-3-police-officers-2-bystanders-outside-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26638","title":{"rendered":"Gunman shoots 3 police officers, 2 bystanders outside New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Five people were shot and injured, including three police officers, at a suburban New Orleans home on Sunday, local police&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wgno.com\/news\/crime\/kenner-police-investigate-after-shooting-leaves-two-men-wounded\/\"><u>said<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Police responded to reports of a shooting in Kenner, La., at about 9:45 a.m., arriving to find two gunshot victims outside a home, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A standoff began between police and the gunman, 31-year-old Matthew Lathers, who already had an outstanding warrant for attempted murder and armed robbery. The home belonged to one of Lathers\u2019 family members, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">When police obtained a search warrant and a SWAT team approached the home, they \u201cimmediately began receiving fire,\u201d police said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt least one SWAT member returned fire. Three officers were shot, and it is unknown at this time if Lathers was struck during that initial contact.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">After multiple attempts to negotiate Lathers\u2019 surrender, a sheriff\u2019s department sniper shot and killed Lathers, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Two of the officers shot have already been released from the hospital, and the three other victims have been described as in stable condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/4628177-gunman-shoots-3-police-officers-2-bystanders-outside-new-orleans\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people were shot and injured, including three police officers, at a suburban New Orleans home on Sunday, local police&nbsp;said. Police responded to reports of a shooting in Kenner, La., at about 9:45 a.m., arriving to find two gunshot victims outside a home, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said.&nbsp; A standoff began between police and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[28115,3381,1237,1530,8279],"class_list":["post-26638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-bystanders","tag-new-orleans","tag-police","tag-shooting","tag-suburban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26640,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26638\/revisions\/26640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}