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‘Dallas shooter had planned a larger attack’
WASHINGTON: Micah Johnson, the Dallas sniper who killed five police officers, was planning a larger attack but fast-tracked it in view of the recent killings of
WASHINGTON: Micah Johnson, the Dallas sniper who killed five police officers, was planning a larger attack but fast-tracked it in view of the recent killings of African Americans.
“It appears that our search of the suspect’s home in Mesquite (in Texas) leads us to believe, based on evidence of bomb-making materials and a journal, that this suspect had been practising explosive detonations and that the materials were such that it was large enough to have devastating effects throughout our city and our North Texas area,” Dallas police chief David Brown told CNN on Sunday.
The police chief added that his officers were convinced the killer “had other plans and thought that what he was doing was righteous and believed that he was going to make law enforcement and target law enforcement, make us pay for what he sees as law enforcement’s efforts to punish people of colour”.
Johnson, a US military veteran discharged over sexual harassment accusations, killed five officers and wounded seven cops and two civilians, in a sniper assault late Thursday night.
He was killed after a two-hour stand-off with police negotiators who were trying to persuade him to surrender, by an explosive device placed near him by a “bomb robot”.
