Hundreds of people gathered in front of Burnsville City Hall in Minnesota on Sunday night for a candlelit vigil to remember the two police officers and the first responder who were killed in a shooting there earlier that day.
The three deaths and the injury of a third police officer occurred at a suburban Minneapolis home in an exchange of gunfire, as police responded to a domestic dispute call involving an armed man who had barricaded himself inside a house with his family. Officials say the suspect also died in the shooting.
The shooting in Burnsville claimed the lives of two 27-year-old police officers and a 40-year-old first responder. Seven children were inside the house, but officials say the family was able to leave the home safely. The city of Burnsville said a police sergeant was hospitalized with what are believed to be non-life-threatening injuries.
On Sunday evening, a fire truck and a police car were in front of the town’s City Hall as part of a candlelit vigil. The police vehicle had bouquets of flowers on the hood and handwritten signs tucked under the windshield, one of which read: “We are praying for you.”
