Five dead in Las Vegas gun ambush

Dead in Las Vegas gun ambush In a shooting rampage that left five people dead, two suspects killed two Las Vegas police officers on Sunday at a pizza restaurant and fatally shot a third person at a nearby Walmart before dying in a suicide pact, the authorities said.

The shooters dead in Las Vegas gun ambush , one male and one female, ambushed the two police officers as they were eating lunch at a CiCi’s Pizza restaurant around 11:20 a.m. Las Vegas time, Sheriff Douglas Gillespie said at a news conference on Sunday afternoon.

The suspects took the officers’ weapons and ammunition before they fled across the street to a Walmart store in the same plaza. There they fatally shot one other person inside the entrance, Gillespie said. Other officers responding to the shooting call confronted the man and the woman and exchanged gunfire with the suspects, and then they heard several shots.

The female suspect is believed to have shot the male suspect before taking her own life, Gillespie said. He added investigators believe the couple had a suicide pact.

The CiCi’s Pizza restaurant is about 9 miles from the Las Vegas Strip. The restaurant and the Walmart are in a shopping plaza that was bustling with activity on Sunday morning.

Police officers and deputies who gathered outside the restaurant where Beck and Soldo were attacked stood in small clusters, many of them hugging each other. Some officers wept.

“We have lost two officers with young families and a family of law enforcement who cares very much about them,” Gillespie said at the news conference. “What precipitated this incident we do not know. My officers were simply having lunch when the shooting started.”

Pauline Pacheco, a shopper in Walmart, said in an interview with a Las Vegas television station, KLAS, that she saw the armed man enter the store and she grabbed her father so they could escape.

Walmart released a statement on Sunday afternoon saying, “We express our deepest condolences to everyone who has been affected