A South Carolina police officer was killed in the line of duty while responding to a domestic disturbance Sunday, police say.
The suspect accused of fatally shooting 28-year-old Roy Andrew"Drew" Barr, an officer with the Cayce Police Department, also died, authorities say. The unidentified suspect killed himself after officers attempted to negotiate with him for seven hours, Chief Chris Cowan said at a press conference.
5% of the officers killed between 2011 and 2020 were responding to domestic disturbance or violence calls.Intentional killings of law enforcement officers reach 20-year high, FBI saysSeveral factors can make a domestic violence incident highly dangerous for responding officers, according to Jon Shane, a professor in the Criminal Justice department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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