Two police officers and a paramedic were killed on Sunday morning after a shooting erupted during a response to a call about a domestic incident.
The incident took place in Burnsville, Minnesota, a city of roughly 64,000 people located 15 miles south of downtown Minneapolis in Dakota County. At approximately 5:30 a.m. local time, officers responded to a domestic report at a home near the 12000 block of 33rd Avenue.
Speaking with local ABC affiliate KSTP News, a witness in the neighborhood reported hearing gunshots and said they received a shelter-in-place warning on their phone. Eventually, a large police presence began to gather in the area, made up of responding officers from multiple precincts.
It was initially reported that several officers had been shot and injured during the shooting, as was a paramedic who witnesses said was on the scene to treat the officers. By noon on Sunday, it was confirmed that two officers and the paramedic had died from their injuries.
The identities of the deceased have not yet been disclosed, and neither have the nature of the domestic call and the cause of the gunfire been revealed. The Burnsville Police Department is expected to release more information later in the day.
Newsweek reached out to the Burnsville Police Department via email on Sunday afternoon. Any responses received will be added to this story in an update.
This is a developing story and will be updated when more information becomes available.
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