Gavin Long

The horrific scene unfolded in a matter of minutes, a black clad man with military training stalking law enforcement officers and ignoring horrified onlookers as he shot anyone he could find wearing a badge.

The suspect who shot three police officers dead in Baton Rouge on Sunday was a Marine veteran who served in Iraq, in a chilling parallel with the Dallas cop killings, whose perpetrator served in Afghanistan.

US media identified the suspect behind a shooting that killed three police officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Sunday as Gavin Long, a 29-year-old African American.

The horrific scene unfolded in a matter of minutes, a black clad man with military training stalking law enforcement officers and ignoring horrified onlookers as he shot anyone he could find wearing a badge.

The suspect who shot three police officers dead in Baton Rouge on Sunday was a Marine veteran who served in Iraq, in a chilling parallel with the Dallas cop killings, whose perpetrator served in Afghanistan.

US media identified the suspect behind a shooting that killed three police officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Sunday as Gavin Long, a 29-year-old African American.