Killer Targeted White Officers as Payback, Police Say

By MANNY FERNANDEZ, RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH 12:45 AM ET

• Micah Johnson, 25, was a military veteran who had served in Afghanistan, and kept an arsenal in his home that included bomb-making materials.
• The killing of five officers was the kind of retaliatory violence that has been feared through two years of protests against deaths in police custody.

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Chief Becomes Face of Nation’s Shock

By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN 12:45 AM ET

As Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown talked about the standoff between his officers and the gunman at news conferences, he also offered simple, emotional words: “We’re hurting.”