Dallas, TX – Dallas police chief David Brown says the suspect in the deadly attack on Dallas police officers scrawled letters in his own blood on the walls of the parking garage where officers cornered and later killed him.
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Brown told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that Micah Johnson wrote lettering in blood before heading upstairs and writing more in his own blood. He says the 25-year-old Army veteran wrote the letters “RB,” and that investigators are looking through things found in his suburban Dallas home to try to figure out what he may have meant by that.
The chief defended the decision to kill Johnson using a robot-delivered bomb, saying negotiations went nowhere and trying to “get him” in some other way would have put his officers in danger.
Brown says that during the roughly two-hour standoff in the garage, Johnson lied to and taunted the police negotiators.
Authorities say Johnson killed five police officers and wounded seven others and two civilians during an attack at a protest over last week’s killings by police of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.