Killer of 3 Police Officers identified as ex-Marine Gavin Long
Divorced and living in a working-class neighborhood, Missouri records show he had no criminal history.
Gavin Eugene Long.
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The suspect, Gavin Eugene Long, 29, was from Kansas City, Missouri, another source familiar with the investigation told Reuters. Divorced and living in a working-class neighborhood, Missouri records show he had no criminal history.
It was not immediately clear how Long, who was black, ended up in Baton Rouge, where police killed him in a shootout on his 29th birthday, according to media reports. The city has become a flashpoint for protests after police shot and killed Alton Sterling, a black man, outside a convenience store there on July 5.
A website, social media accounts and YouTube videos that appear tied to Long include complaints about police abuse of African-Americans and indicate he recently joined demonstrations in Dallas, where a black former member of the U.S. Army Reserve killed five officers two days after Sterling's death.
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"Violence is not THE answer (its a answer), but at what point do you stand up so that your people dont become the Native Americans...EXTINCT?" Long tweeted on Wednesday.
A website named "convoswithcosmo" that features self-help, health and relationship advice was owned by a Gavin Long at a Kansas City address, according to online records. As of Sunday night, police in Kansas City had cordoned off the block where that address is located. That address also appears in local court records for a Gavin Long in two separate civil cases.
In a YouTube video posted on July 10, the host of "Convos with Cosmos" says he is in Dallas and had gone to the city to join protests there. The man says that African-Americans are oppressed and questions why white American revolutionaries are praised for fighting their oppressors but African ones are not.
Later in the video, he suggests that only violence and financial pressure will cause change.
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"We know what it's going to take. It's only fighting back or money. That's all they care about," he says to the camera. "Revenue and blood, revenue and blood, revenue and blood. Nothing else."
A government source said federal officials were reviewing the web postings but could not definitively link them to Long.
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