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Police have arrested a man for the shooting of two police officers outside the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department. Jeffrey Williams, 20, was charged with two counts of first-degree assault, one count of firing a weapon from a vehicle, and three counts of armed criminal action in connection with last week’s shooting, ABC News reported. St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch said Williams fired the shots from a car driving through an area where protesters were gathered, and that it was unclear whether the police officers were his intended target since Williams had told investigators that he was “involved...

Two police officers were shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department earlier this morning in an attack St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar described as “an ambush,” the Associated Press reported. A small crowd of protesters had gathered across the street, “holding a demonstration in the wake of the resignation of the Ferguson police chief, who stepped down Wednesday.” As the protest began to break up, shots were fired and, based upon the trajectory of the bullets and where the officers had been standing, Belmar believes the shots were directed at police. “This is really an ambush,”...