The three officer that died in the Baton Rouge killing confirmed as Montrell Jackson is among the dead, Authorities have opened up the area in Baton Rouge where three law enforcement officers were shot and killed.
The ground behind the convenience store and a nearby beauty supply store was still wet Sunday, apparently from being washed down by authorities following the investigation.
An Associated Press photographer on the scene could see what appeared to be two large blood stains on the concrete pavement on either end of the wall of the beauty supply store.
What appeared to be three bullet holes pierced the back of the corrugated aluminum wall of the beauty supply store on one end while two bullet holes could be seen entering the wall at the other end of the building.
Three officers were killed in the Sunday morning shooting.
Slain Baton Rouge police officer Matthew Gerald celebrated his fourth wedding anniversary just two weeks ago.
WWL-TV ( http://bit.ly/2a9jnF9 ) reports Gerald and his wife, Dechia, have a 3-year-old daughter together and that Gerald had adopted his wife's daughter from a previous relationship.
Family friend Skye Turner says Gerald was, "a good family man, good cop, loving husband."
WWL reports Gerald was a former Marine and Blackhawk crew chief in the Army and had joined the police department four months ago.
Gerald was gunned down Sunday along with two other officers.
A neighbor of slain Baton Rouge sheriff's deputy Brad Garafola says he was a family man.
Rhonda Smith said Sunday evening that Garafola was never seen without at least one of his four children, who range in age from 7 to 21.
Smith says Garafola was, "the epitome of a peace officer."
A gunman killed 45-year-old Garafola, who had been with the sheriff's office for 24 years, and two Baton Rouge police officers early Sunday before he was shot and killed.
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