The gunman who killed three police officers in Baton Rouge left a suicide note before he went in search of cops to kill last summer, according to an investigative report released Friday.
Gavin Long, a 29-year-old black man from Kansas City, Missouri, sought out law enforcement when he attacked the officers that Sunday morning.
He killed Baton Rouge officers Montrell Jackson, 32, and Matthew Gerald, 41, and East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Brad Garafola, 45.
In a suicide note, Long wrote that people who knew him would be surprised he was ‘suspected of committing such horrendous acts of violence’.
But he also wrote that his actions were a ‘necessary evil’ that needed to happen ‘in order to create substantial change within America’s police force and judicial system’.
He wrote he had to inflict harm ‘upon bad cops as well as good cops in hopes that the good cops (which are the majority) will be able to stand together and enact justice and punishment against bad cops’.
East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore III released an exhaustive report Friday about Long’s ambush of police, including the details of Long’s suicide note.
Gavin Long, pictured, a 29-year-old black man from Kansas City, Missouri, sought out law enforcement when he attacked the officers last summer
East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore III released an exhaustive report Friday about Long’s ambush of police, including the details of Long’s suicide note and surveillance footage that shows Long’s attack on police, pictured
The prosecutor showed videos, photos and graphics to reporters, depicting exactly how Long attacked police on July 17, 2016.
The report showed that Long had searched online for the home addresses of two white police officers who were involved in a fatal encounter with Alton Sterling, a black man who was killed outside a convenience store.