BATON ROUGE, La. — The Baton Rouge community started a somber period Thursday, filled with funerals and memorials for three officers killed by a gunman.
The law enforcement officers — Baton Rouge police officers Matthew Gerald and Montrell Jackson and East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Brad Garafola — were killed Sunday in what police described as an ambush.
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