{"id":81399,"date":"2016-07-17T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=81399"},"modified":"2016-07-17T20:50:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T00:50:49","slug":"breaking-baton-rouge-shooter-was-nation-of-islam-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-baton-rouge-shooter-was-nation-of-islam-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Baton Rouge Shooter Was Nation of Islam Member; Social Media Accounts Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOUISIANA — 29-year old Gavin Eugene Long, a black man from Kansas City, Missouri, shot six Baton Rouge-area police officers at approximately 8:40 a.m. CDT on Sunday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Three of the officers died and three more were hospitalized at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge.<\/p>\n

Of the officers that died, two were members of the Baton Rouge Police Department; the third worked for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n

Long, the lone shooter, died in a shootout with police at the scene.<\/p>\n

Long was reportedly a member of the nation of Islam.<\/p>\n

On a YouTube channel discovered by the Daily Caller, Long rants about ‘crackers’ and police shootings. (Video below)<\/p>\n

Long’s apparent Twitter account is @ConvosWithCosmo<\/a>, Instagram:\u00a0instagram.com\/convoswithcosmo\/<\/a><\/p>\n

He also claims to have written a book:\u00a0www.amazon.com\/Cosmo-Way-olistic-Transformation-Melanated-ebook<\/a><\/p>\n

Long attended the University of Alabama and was honorably discharged from the Marines in 2010, according to CBS news.<\/p>\n