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Two U.S. marshals and a St. Louis police officer were wounded in a shootout with a suspect they were attempting to arrest today.
The standoff ended with the suspect shot to death and the three law enforcement officers taken to the hospital, St. Louis police said.
The officers were attempting to serve an arrest warrant at the suspect's home in the St. Louis suburb called Dutchtown, when the man opened fire with a semi-automatic pistol as the officers tried to enter the home.
One marshal was shot in the head, sources told ABC News. He is alive but in critical condition. The second marshal is believed to have been shot in the leg or foot.
A shot fired at the St. Louis police officer ricocheted off his bullet-proof vest and entered his shoulder. He appears to have suffered a broken shoulder, sources said.
When authorities arrived at the suspect's home, he told them, "I'm only going out in a body bag," ABC News radio affiliate KTRS reported.
Three children were removed from the home before shots were fired.
"Two Deputy U.S. Marshals and one task force officer from the Eastern District of Missouri were serving an arrest warrant this morning at a residence in St. Louis when they were involved in a shooting – all three were struck by gunfire and have been taken to a local hospital," Jeff Carter, spokesman for the U.S. Marshals said in a statement.
The shootings of U.S. marshals and police are the latest in a string of police casualties this year.
As of March 8, 36 law enforcement officials have been killed in the line of duty nationwide. Of those four were federal agents, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
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