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How the Dallas SWAT team cornered and killed the July 7 police shooter

By Jamie Thompson
Staff Writer
The Dallas News
Published Feb. 2, 2018

(Some excerpts)

Larry Gordon could hear the fear in his own voice, and he wondered if the gunman could hear it, too. In standoff negotiations, tone is everything. He needed this guy to know he was heard, feel he was understood.

In the best of scenarios, Gordon’s aim was to talk people down, coax them out peacefully. Tonight that seemed impossible. Outside, several officers were already down. Gordon didn’t know how many. He’d gotten word that one had died, and then another. Then another.

His job now was to help his colleagues take this guy out — before he killed more of them.

By the time the sun rose the next morning, five Dallas cops would be dead. Fathers and husbands and brothers and sons, some of them cut down from behind before they had a chance to fight. Nine more cops and two civilians would be wounded.

An overhead photo shows the intersection of Main and Lamar streets at the end of the peaceful Black Lives Matter march. Within 10 minutes, the gunman would begin his deadly attack. Officer Patrick Zamarripa, who was killed, can be seen standing by a patrol car on the lower left side. Two of the other slain officers are standing in the crosswalk at top: Senior Cpl. Lorne Ahrens (center) and Officer Michael Krol (right).

https://interactives.dallasnews.com/2018/standoff/