A Las Vegas police officer was shot Sunday in an ambush attack as he sat with his partner in his squad car, KTNV reported.

The suspected gunman is in custody, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department tweeted.

Two officers were leaving the scene of a disturbance call at a .99 Cents Only store when an individual walked up to their patrol car while it was stopped at a traffic light and fired three shots, striking one of the officers in the hand, KTNV reported.

Police did not return fire during the encounter, which occurred shortly after noon, local time. The officer who was shot is expected to survive; he has not yet been named.

The gunman used a semi-automatic handgun, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Police pursued the alleged shooter on foot until he dropped his weapon and surrendered, according to Metro Sgt. John Sheahan.

A witness at the scene of Sunday's shooting told the Review-Journal that the alleged gunman "didn't resist or put up a fight" when cops caught up to him.


This is the second shooting of a police officer in three days in Las Vegas. A cop was shot in the leg on Friday while responding to a report of a prowler. Since that incident, Las Vegas officers have been riding in pairs in patrol cars, Sheahan said.

The news comes following the murders of officers in Texas and Illinois in the past two weeks. Texas Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth was killed as he filled his cruiser with gas on Aug. 28. Goforth was shot from behind; his assailant unloaded 15 bullets, according to authorities. Shannon Miles is charged with capital murder in the case.

In Illinois, Fox Lake Lt. Joe Gliniewicz, 52, was found shot to death Sept. 1. Gliniewicz, a 30-year police veteran who was planning to retire at the end of the month, contacted dispatchers about three suspicious men he was pursuing and requested a second unit. Dispatchers soon lost contact with him, and backup officers found Gliniewicz about 50 yards from his squad car with a gunshot wound. He died soon after. Police are still on the hunt for his killers.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/06/police-officer-shot-in-ambush-style-attack-expected-to-survive/?intcmp=hplnws

It's a sad environment when Law Enforcement are to worried about shooting back. None of the Law enforcement Officers returned fire out of fear of being vilified.

FU Barry Obama!

the victims arent hurt because they wouldnt fire back, they were hurt because they were caught off guard,,

Victims? if your referring to the police, the were hurt because they were ambushed...

They should have fired back, it would have been justified. It's to the point where Law Enforcement Officers are scared to defend themselves unfortunately thanks to Barry who vilifies them and the damn Black Lives Matter hate group.

Don't repeat that crap or leave out the relevant evidence.
LV shooting 1, 1 suspect, 1 gun, 1 victim, 1 wound. CAPTURED. Next
LV shooting 2, 1 suspect, 1 gun, 1 victim, 1 wound. CAPTURED. Next
Deputy Goforth, 1 homicide, 1 gun, 1 suspect hospitalized by court order for 6 months, CAPTURED. R.I.P. ...
Lt Gliniewicz, 1 homicide, 1+? gun(s)?, 1 victim, 2 WHITE 1 black suspects WANTED. $50,000 reward last I heard. R.I.P.

4 shootings 2 black suspects, 1 known to be deputy Goforths killer was found to be mentally incompetent to stand trial and court ordered to a Texas State mental hospital for 6 months. Nobody knows how many guns may have been involved in the Lt. murder or who actually shot him.

Lt Gliniewicz' death wasn't racially motivated. Any judge that would even allow that on record in court shouldn't just be disbarred he should have to eat his robe and his gavel. 2white 1 black suspect. Murder, without a doubt it will be charged as such if anyone ever finds out who these 3 guys are. Even then it'd have to be charged as a joint venture because all 3 of them would plea bargain saying the other two killed him and they were just the look out.
Goforths murder was an execution by a mentally ill person. Crime. Tragic. Terrible. Inexcusable. How Travis county is going to get out of the mess they are in seeing what they did with his previous case in terms of not following up, idk. The Sheriff is on record stating that there is no evidence to support that race was a motivation. His uniform was.

Were any of them carrying black lives matter banners? Any? No.

The people chanting FOR 30 SECONDS about pigs blankets and bacon, quite a few of them including the 2 in front of the banner and some carrying the black lives matter banner, were WHITE. They were WHITE people, people. They were white. What does that mean? It means these attacks on police, if the movement is their motivation, CANNOT BE RACIAL.
30 seconds of chanting in one city does not turn A PEACEFUL PROTEST ORGANIZATION into a hate group.

i disagree... anyone who calls for death and murder is a hate group, plain and simple... by your standards, skinheads aren't a hate group...

Moe did you sign my petition yet?

thats kind of what I said...lol

ambush: make a surprise attack on (someone) from a concealed position

an individual and a group are different things

skinheads are a GROUP , actually several subgroups too, and they dont all call for death and murder,, believe it or not

those GROUPS who as their PLATFORM encourage and promote murder and hate are HATE GROUPS

a group having individuals show up that promote these things does not make the GROUP a hate group

they arent anymore scared to fire back than at any other time,, give me a break

sometimes police get killed, are we to believe it wasnt until BLM movement that cop haters and killers existed?

i disagree, still... king shabazz is the leader of the black panthers, and he wants his "peeps" to kill white babies, farrycon is the leader of a "church" and he wants white people dead... thats hate, plain and simple...

Shabazz - Black Panthers ≠ Black Lives Matter
Farrakhan - Nation of Islam ≠ Black Lives Matter

To quote mikeybegood

^ ≠ is symbol for 'not equal to'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCO1lloWYqc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B8xytYhFLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLWmo2kCa8o

more misinformation and outdated rhetoric

once again

yes, SHABAZZ as LEADER of NBP leads the group wit a hateful philosophy of killing

Farrakhan, as head of NOI is teaching seperation and not wanting white people dead

,,,,,,thats not 'hate',,, plain and simple

misinformation and outdated? killing white babies has an expiration date? what "mis"information did i do? just because you won't see the truth doesn't mean others skip over like that...

so if pat robertson decides that we need a separation of whites and blacks, and says the world would be better off without blacks and jews, how would you take that?

farrakhan wanting to kill whites is outdated and therefore misinformation

technically he spoke out against 'white devils',,,whcih I take to mean a subsecion of whites who are devilish, but maybe others assume all whites are

and that MUCH REPEATED statement, was spoken over five decades ago,,,


I have conceded twice now, that , in contrast, the NBPP has through its actual leadership promoted killing white babies

as recently as this past year and half


when , in the recent, lets say FOUR DECADES(my lifetime), did farrakhan say the world would be better off without whites?

yes, more than once...

ONE actual incidence will do,,,,,,

i did, 5 posts up...