SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- A suspect who engaged police in a shootout and staged a nearly 12-hour standoff was shot and killed on Thursday morning in Tacoma, an urban port city in Washington state, police said.
An officer of Tacoma Police Department, identified by the department as Reginald ""Jake"" Gutierrez, was fatally shot at the early stage of the incident, which began around 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday as a domestic disturbance incident.
The male shooter, identified by his family as Bruce R. Johnson II, then barricaded himself inside the house with a 6-year-old boy and a 8-year-old girl. ""We negotiated through the night. Negotiations failed,"" Pierce County Sheriff's Office spokesman Ed Troyer said.
At around 3:30 a.m. on Thursday, a SWAT team moved into the house, rescued one the children and a sheriff's deputy outside the house fired a shot through a bedroom window while the suspect tried to grab the other child, killing the man. The second child was safe and later sent to a hospital together with the first one as a precaution.
About the fallen officer, a 45-year-old veteran of the local police force since 1999, Tacoma Police Department spokeswoman Loretta Cool told a press briefing that ""we've suffered a great loss, and I think the community has suffered a great loss.""
The incident took place in a working class neighborhood of Tacoma, the third largest city in Washington state with a population of about 200,000, and 32 miles, or 51 kilometers, southwest of Seattle, the largest city in the U.S. Pacific Northwest state.
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KHARTOUM Cheap Fjallraven Kanken Big , Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) has provided 106 million euros to support Sudanese affected by natural disasters, a Sudanese official announced Sunday.
Sudan's First Vice-President and Prime Minister Bakri Hassan Saleh met the visiting European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides.
"The first vice-president's meeting with the European official reviewed the positive development regarding the humanitarian and political affairs in Sudan," Attal-Mannan Bakheet, Sudan's State Minister for Foreign Affairs, told reporters.
"The EU donated 106 million euros for Sudan to meet the needs of people affected by natural disasters in the country," he noted.
Meanwhile, Sudan's foreign ministry said in a statement that Bakheet met earlier on the day with Stylianides and briefed him on the development of the situations in the country.
According to the statement, Stylianides' visit in Khartoum tends to enhance the standing cooperation between Sudan and the EU in the humanitarian field, inspect the EU projects in Darfur and get acquainted with the conditions of the refugees from South Sudan.
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