2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and shot police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five, injuring nine others, and wounding two civilians. Johnson, a 25-year-old Army Reserve Afghan War veteran, was angry over police shootings of black men. He shot the officers at the end of a protest against the recent killings by police of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
| 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers | |
|---|---|
Screenshot from a video showing Micah Johnson in front of El Centro College, on the Lamar Street side. | |
| Location | Main Street and S. Lamar Street, Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 32°46′46.4″N 96°48′15.4″W |
| Date | July 7–8, 2016 8:58 p.m. – 2:30 a.m. (CT) |
| Target | Police officers in Dallas |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, shootout, ambush |
| Weapons | |
| Deaths | 6 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 11 (9 officers, 2 civilians) |
| Perpetrator | Micah Xavier Johnson |
| Motive | Backlash to police brutality |
Johnson fled to a building on the campus of El Centro College, where police killed him several hours later with a bomb attached to a remote-controlled bomb disposal robot. It was the first time U.S. law enforcement used a robot to kill a suspect.
The shooting was the deadliest incident for U.S. law enforcement since the September 11, 2001, attacks, surpassing two related March 2009 shootings in Oakland, California, and a November 2009 ambush shooting in Lakewood, Washington, each of which killed four police officers and the gunmen. It was the second-deadliest targeted attack of U.S. law enforcement officers in history; and the largest since the Young Brothers massacre of 1932 killed six officers in Missouri.