CHARLOTTE, N.C. Four law officers serving a warrant for a felon wanted for possessing a firearm were killed and four other officers were wounded in a shootout Monday at a North Carolina home, police said.
in, they re hard-pressed to do so. we have two officers, as we know it now, still inside with the individual and just keep trying. i think the main tactic now or strategy is going to come from the two officers who are inside that room by maintaining their composu composure and that s something we worry about. in fact, in the 2002, we had a situation right here in new york city where we had one of our detectives held hostage and had a gun to his head and the main the main thing that saved the day on that was the detective maintaining his composure inside that room. this was a serving a warrant on drug-related warrant, if a suspect if a person who is barricaded in who s already been shooting, if they are on some sort of of a narcotic, that
strategy is going to come from the two officers who are inside that room by maintaining their composure and that s something we worry about. in fact, in the 2002, we had a situation right here in new york city where we had one of our detectives held hostage and had a gun to his head and the main the main thing that saved the day on that was the detective maintaining his composure inside that room. this was a serving a warrant on drug-related warrant, if a suspect if a person who is barricaded in who s already been shooting, if they are on some sort of of a narcotic, that that is a wild card that as a negotiator has got to be extremely difficult to kind of handle. well, sure.
scene. that video you showed a second go of that suspect walking out of temple university hospital that was just about an hour to an hour and a half ago. we are told he was there because of the tear gas that police fired into the home last night. take a look at this video now and you will see that happen. this was shortly before midnight. that alleged suspect was being treated as a result of that tear gas. that happened shortly before midnight as i mentioned. between that tear gas and a four-person negotiating team, the alleged suspect came out of the house with his hands in the air. we have that video to show you again. now, he is being identified as maurice hill. he is identified by an attorney who was part of this four person negotiation team. this attorney told us he had worked with him in previous cases. the two had a relationship. now, let s take you to the beginning of when this happened. aroun4:30 p.m. when officers wee serving a warrant. take a listen to a very desperate dispa
reporter: gunshots heard in the background. officers calling for backup. all of it playing out on live tv. a tense situation. reporter: the city s elite strike force moving in with an armored vehicle. residents reporting hearing more than 100 gunshots. the air thick with the smell of gunpowder. i heard so many gunshots that i got scared. gio, we re just learning why the officers were responding at that home? reporter: that s right. we re learning they were trying to serve a narcotics warrant at that home. police often tell us that serving a warrant is one of the most dangerous operations for officers. now we re seeing that play out in philadelphia. david? gio, thank you. the other major story, the steep drop on wall street. closing down more than 800 points, and the warning, the key indicator that happened today that has foreshadowed recessions before. an inverted yield curve, when the yield on a ten-year treasury