South Carolina: Seven officers shot, suspect in custodyFLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — A police officer was killed and six of his comrades were wounded when a man began shooting at deputies who came to serve a search warrant, barricading himself in his home with children and spraying bullets across his upscale suburban neighborhood, authorities said.
The sheriff's armored personnel carrier was brought in to recover the wounded Wednesday, and the shooter finally released the children as he was taken into custody after a two-hour standoff, authorities said.
"Officers went there unknowing the firepower the suspect had," Florence County Sheriff Kenney Boone said at a news conference.
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