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Micah Xavier Johnson, 25 years old, of Mesquite, Texas, a military veteran who’d served in Afghanistan. On July 7,2016 Micah opened fire on the Dallas Police, killing five officers, wounding seven, and leaving a screaming crowd. After negotiation failed, the Dallas Police Bomb Squad Robot killed the gunman. The police investigated his house and found multiple weapons and gear. (Including: bomb kits, rifles, ballistic vests, etcetera.) “this was a mobile shooter who had written manifestos on how to shoot and move, shoot and move, and that’s what he did,” Dallas Mayor, Mike Rawlings said at a news conference.
“as we’ve started to unravel this fishing knot, we’ve come to realize this shooting came from one building at different levels.”
Rawlings

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