Schools locked down as police hunt cop-killers (2 Atlanta cops ambushed) [View All]

Source: CNN.com

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Police are hunting for suspects in the killings of two off-duty police officers early Wednesday as they worked security at an apartment complex near Atlanta, Georgia.

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Six county schools are on lockdown as police search for the suspects, a school spokesman said.

The uniformed officers were responding to a call about a suspicious person when someone fired at them shortly before 1 a.m., Bolton said.

One officer died at the scene; the other died at an Atlanta hospital.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/16/officers.killed/index.html

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Looks like they were off-duty, working in an apartment complex that was described as "alot of issues, social issues there"

Ambushing and killing cops... man. Countries that start having this as a problem seem to wind up not being places where it's a good place to live.