2 killed, including the agent, at the Memphis Hotel - Seattle Post Intelligencer

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) - A police officer and another person died of their wounds after having been shot Sunday evening in a Memphis Hotel, located in the neighbourhood of the entertainment of the city filled with people celebrating the Fourth of July. A suspect was in custody.Director of police Toney said Armstrong officer Timothy Warren, a Department since 2003 patrol officer, died in Center.Warren medical regional among several officers responding to a call to the Doubletree Hotel around 7 a.m. on Sunday. A civilian casualty was also filmed and died in what officials said began as a domestic dispute.Armstrong was Director of the police service of Memphis for only a few months. "" Even if you had been the Director of 20 years, it is a call that you hope you don't ever get ", he said.WMC - TV reported that police had responded earlier in the night to the call for disruption involving the same suspect, but let go. When they were recalled, the officer who shot takes the stairs while other officers takes the elevator.Police cars and officers armed invading the hotel and its surroundings. The hotel is located at a busy intersection adjacent to the historic hotel of Peabody and the Memphis Redbirds minor league Stadium. A game is in progress and fireworks were planned after the match.Joel Miller of Maryland attended a meeting of family at the hotel. He told the Commercial Appeal that it gets in an elevator with the suspect, who was wearing shorts and a plaid shirt.Miller he "seemed to be off," said the newspaper, "as he was out of it."Miller said that man has descended on the third floor, he pulled out a pistol from his pocket. "He looked and pointed his finger and made like that", Miller said, claiming the fire a weapon.