Dallas Police Chief: Shooter Left Message In Blood

Dallas police chief David Brown, front, and Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings, rear, talk with the media during a news conference, Friday, July 8, 2016, in Dallas. Snipers opened fire on police officers in the heart of Dal... Dallas police chief David Brown, front, and Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings, rear, talk with the media during a news conference, Friday, July 8, 2016, in Dallas. Snipers opened fire on police officers in the heart of Dallas Thursday night, during protests over two recent fatal police shootings of black men. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) MORE LESS
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Dallas Police Chief David Brown said Sunday that the shooter, who killed five police officers, scrawled a message in blood before a shootout with police.

Brown, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the shooter, identified as 25-year-old Micah Johnson, wrote “RB” in blood.

Brown went on to say that Johnson “had some delusion” and that he rambled in a journal that is “hard to decipher.”

“I can just add, at the scene where he was killed, there was some — he wrote some lettering in blood on the walls, which leads us to believe he was wounded on the way up the stairwell on the second floor of the El Centro building,” Brown said. “And where we detonated the device to end the standoff, there was more lettering written in his own blood.”

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