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Two police officers shot at city council meeting in Minnesota

By Andrew V. Pestano and Danielle Haynes

NEW HOPE, Minn., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A man shot and wounded two police officers after a swearing-in ceremony at a city council meeting in New Hope, Minn.

Police returned fire and killed the man who shot the officers.

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Officers Joshua Eernisse and Adam Johnson were sworn in, but it's not determined if they were the officers who were injured in the Monday shooting.

The officers who were shot were in the hospital in good condition and were expected to survive, Hennepin County, Minn., Chief Deputy Mike Carlson told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

The city council meeting was being taped. The officers and some of their colleagues had just left the city council chambers when they were confronted by the gunman.

"Get down," an armed city council member member said. "Everybody get down!"

The reasons for the shooting were unknown and the suspect's name hadn't been released. Police said they were looking for no other suspects in the shooting.

"To have it happen right across the street from our home, with police officers in parking lots with drawn guns, it's scary, very scary," resident Linda Townsend told WCCO-TV, Minneapolis.

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