Four Dead, Two Wounded in Tennessee ShootingMEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) - Four people were shot to death and two wounded on Wednesday when a Memphis fireman allegedly ambushed fellow firefighters and police responding to a blaze at his house, police reported.
The suspect, identified by authorities as Fred Williams, 41, was allegedly angered by his estrangement from his newlywed wife.
The early afternoon shooting began when firefighters responded to a call and arrived to find the home ablaze, but they came under fire.
One firefighter was fatally shot at the scene while the other was critically wounded and died later at a hospital, said Shelby County Sheriff Deputy Chief Corbett Hart.
When the firefighting crew radioed for help, a deputy sheriff arrived and was fatally shot while still in his patrol car. The vehicle careened through a fence into an adjacent yard. A female bystander who had been talking to the officer was wounded in the head, though not critically, Hart said.
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