Dallas police chief: Shooter seemed delusional, scrawled cryptic messages in blood

July 10, 2016 20:52

The gunman who fatally shot five Dallas law enforcement officers appeared delusional, taunted police during extensive negotiations by singing and "laughing at us' and wrote cryptic messages on a wall with his own blood before he was killed by a bomb-equipped robot, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said.

The shooter, Micah Xavier Johnson, was "determined to hurt more officers' and would have done so if the pound of C-4 explosive carried by the robot had not ended the standoff, Brown said.

The additional details of Johnson's behavior came after a tense night marked by the arrest of a prominent activist in the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in Louisiana and Minnesota that resulted in as many as 200 arrests, according to activists and police.

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