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Jack Dunphy NRO

...in Long Beach, California, Officers Abe Yap and Roy Wade tried to make a traffic stop on a man who had been seen acting suspiciously in a gun store. The suspect stopped his car without warning in the middle of the street then jumped out and raked the police car with rifle fire. Neither officer was able to return fire or even get out of the car. Both were critically injured but were saved through the efforts of emergency-room workers at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. Wade had graduated from the police academy only three weeks earlier.

Long Beach detectives identified the shooter as Oscar Gabriel Gallegos, 33, an illegal immigrant previously arrested and deported no less than three times for various felonies. Gallegos was tracked to a strip mall in Santa Ana, Calif., and when officers moved in to arrest him he again opened fire. The result was more satisfactory this time: Gallegos was hit several times and died at the scene. Though the strip mall was dotted with bullet holes and littered with casings, no officers or bystanders were injured.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWU2MDM0OThlMjUwMDM1ZTdlNDIxZjkyYjY0NmQwNjk=

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