7 Shot In Morning Ambush In Baton Rouge

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BATON ROUGE, La. – Three officers have been killed after as many as seven were shot in Baton Rouge Sunday morning, according to a CBS reporter who is in Baton Rouge and who had been covering the Alton Sterling shooting and the ensuing protests.

Two hospitals in Baton Rouge are on lockdown with police guarding the facilities.

The officers were shot early Sunday – and – as of 9:30 a.m. a manhunt was on for the suspect or suspects.

A witness told WBRZ-TV that a man was dressed in black with his face covered shooting indiscriminately when he walked out between a convenience store and car wash across from Hammond Air Plaza. Police closed the streets between the police department’s headquarters and Interstate 12.