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Baton Rouge Shooting: Witnesses describe chaotic scene, hear 20-30 gunshots

A witness to Sunday’s shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisana which has left three police officers dead and three others injured said, said he heard at least 25-30 shots at the time of the shooting.

An unidentified witness told WAFB he saw “a man lying in the street.”

“I assume he was dead because he wasn’t moving.”

Brady Vancel also spoke to the station, telling WAFB the man looked like a pedestrian running with a rifle in his hand, rather than someone trained to move with a rifle.

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Vancel said he had gone to work on a flooring job nearby when he heard semi-automatic gunfire and perhaps a handgun. He saw a man in a red shirt lying in an empty parking lot and “another gunman running away as more shots were being fired back and forth from several guns.”

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“I was going outside and soon as I was going outside I just hear shots fired everywhere,” Marquis Gibson told CNN. “And then everyone just started running inside the building. And then I was just, everyone just standing in the back of the store. Then all of a sudden, about 10 minutes later, there’s a chopper in the sky. A helicopter.”

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Another witness streamed part of the scene on Facebook.

“This man is shooting at the police. He has a mask on, looking like a ninja … He is military,” she can be heard saying. “I don’t know who this man is.”

“He’s about to start popping again.”

With files from Associated Press

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