Cops among five killed at Las Vegas shooting
Two police officers were having lunch at a pizza restaurant in Las Vegas when a man and a woman walked in and shot and killed them at point-blank range yesterday.
After shooting the officers, the suspects went across the street to a Walmart store where they shot dead another person.
The two officers who were shot.
There they exchanged gunfire with police before killing themselves in what was believed to be a suicide pact, said the police.
It was reported that during the shooting, one of the suspects had yelled "This is a revolution." Other than this declaration, no motive for the shooting has been uncovered.
A sheriff from the Las Vegas Metro Police Department said that the police do not have much information about the suspects.
Governor Brian Sandoval said in a statement that he was devastated by the murders of the two officers and an innocent civilian in an "act of senseless violence."
Sources: ABC News, Reuters
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