A sniper sprayed dozens of bullets at a courthouse, killing a police officer and wounding a sheriff's deputy and a civilian, then apparently killed a caretaker and himself Sunday in a nearby church, police said.Investigators think the gunman deliberately fired into an emergency dispatch center inside the Latah County Courthouse late Saturday night to lure people into the line of fire. The officer was killed as he rushed to the courthouse, becoming the city's first officer killed in the line of duty. The deputy helped pull him out of the way before being shot, said David Duke, Moscow's assistant chief of police.
Shortly after 6 a.m. Sunday, three SWAT teams entered the First Presbyterian Church in Moscow and found the bodies of the shooter and another man, the church caretaker, Duke said.
An assault rifle, ammunition and spent shells were found next to the gunman's corpse, he said.
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