MEMPHIS, 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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God bless America and it's complete failure to confront a growing problem.

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Let's see... Mesmerists, Dowsers, Luddites, Alienists, Zoroastrians, Alphabetizers... A-ha! Assassins...
~C. Montgomery Burns

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Samaritan: "A good hot curry will help heal your wounds. That is, unless your religion forbids it".

Man: (Eyes growing wide) "No religion forbids a good hot curry".

From shootings at schools, to offices and now to the places where people who are supposed to protect us are working. It really makes you thing how stressed people are today, or how physchotic. The closest any of this has been to me was the Taber, Albert incident- you may not have heard of it if you are not from Canada.

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"You're right. They wouldn't be able to see anything but the top of your head. The glare could blind them."
-B'Ellana Torres, Virtuoso