DALLAS (AP) – Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings says that when a gunman opened fire in the attack that killed five police officers, there were people in the crowd of protesters carrying rifles and wearing protective equipment who turned out not to be involved in the shooting.
Rawlings made his comments Friday in response to questions about initial police reports about possible other suspects. The attack happened at a protest about those recent killings by police.
He said the crowd included about 20 people carrying rifles and wearing protective gear. He says that like others, they started running after the shooting began. He said authorities started stopping them and interviewing them.
He says authorities later concluded that the “shooting came from one building at different levels from one suspect” and that the other people they’d stopped weren’t involved.
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