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ByWillWeissert The Associated Press DALLAS AnArmyveteran killed by Dallas police af- ter the sniper slayings of five officers amassed a per- sonal arsenal at his sub- urban home, including bomb-making materials, bulletproof vests, rifles, am- munition and a journal of combat tactics, authorities said Friday. The man identified as 25-year-old Micah John- son told authorities he was upset about the fatal po- lice shootings of two black men earlier this week and wanted to exterminate whites, "especially white officers," officials said. He was killed by a robot- delivered bomb after the shootings, which marked the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist at- tacks. In all, 12 officers were shot. In Georgia, Missouri and Tennessee, authorities said gun-wielding civilians also shot officers in individual attacks that came after the black men were killed in Louisiana and Minnesota. Two officers were wounded, one critically. President Barack Obama and Texas Gov. Greg Ab- bott asked for the public's prayers. In a letter posted online Friday, Abbott said "every life matters" and urged Texans to come to- gether. "In the end," he wrote, "evil always fails." Johnson was a private first class from the Dallas suburb of Mesquite with a specialty in carpentry and masonry. He served in the Army Reserve for six years starting in 2009 and did one tour in Afghani- stan from November 2013 to July 2014, the military said. After the attack, he tried to take refuge in a parking garage and exchanged gun- fire with police, Police Chief David Brown said. The suspect described his motive during negoti- ations and said he acted alone and was not affiliated with any groups, Brown said. Johnson was black. Law enforcement officials didn't disclose the race of the dead officers. The bloodshed unfolded just a few blocks from where President John F. Kennedy was slain in 1963. The shooting began Thursday evening while hundreds of people were gathered to protest the kill- ings in Baton Rouge, Louisi- ana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota. Brown told re- porters that snipers fired "ambush-style" on the offi- cers. Two civilians were also wounded. Authorities initially blamed multiple "snip- ers" for Thursday's attack, and at one point said three suspects were in custody. But by Friday afternoon, all attention focused on Johnson, and state and federal officials said the entire attack appeared to be the work of a single gunman. With the lone shooter dead, Mayor Mike Rawl- ings declared that the city was safe and "we can move on to healing." He said the gunman wore a protective vest and used an AR-15 ri- fle, a weapon similar to the one fired last month in the attack on an Orlando, Flor- ida, nightclub that killed 49 people. When the gunfire began, the mayor said, about 20 people in the crowd were carrying rifles and wear- ing protective equipment. That raised early concerns that they might have been involved. But after con- ducting interviews, inves- tigators concluded all the shots came from the same attacker. A Texas law enforce- ment official identified the man killed in the parking garage as Johnson. The of- ficial spoke on the condi- tion of anonymity because he said he was not autho- rized to release the infor- mation. Around midday, investi- gators were seen walking in and out of a home believed to be Johnson's in Mesquite. In Washington, the na- tion's top law enforcement official, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, called for calm, saying the recent vi- olence can't be allowed to "precipitate a new normal." Lynch said protesters concerned about killings by police should not be dis- couraged "by those who use your lawful actions as a cover for their heinous vi- olence." The other attacks on police included a Geor- gia man who authorities said called 911 to report a break-in, then ambushed the officer who came to in- vestigate. That sparked a shootout in which both the officer and suspect were wounded but expected to survive. In suburban St. Louis, a motorist shot an officer at least once as the offi- cer walked back to his car during a traffic stop, police said. The officer was hospi- talized in critical condition. SNIPER SHOOTINGS Dallas suspect amassed personal arsenal at home By Steve Karnowski, Kyle Potter and Jeff Baenen The Associated Press FALCON HEIGHTS, MINN. A Minnesota prosecutor said Friday he has asked for a "prompt and thorough in- vestigation" following the police killing of a black motorist whose girlfriend streamed the shooting's gruesome aftermath live on Facebook. Ramsey County Prosecu- tor John Choi said the video is part of the investigation into Wednesday's shooting of Philando Castile in sub- urban St. Paul. The school cafeteria supervisor was shot "for no apparent rea- son" while reaching for his wallet during a traffic stop, after telling the officer he had a gun and a permit to carry it, his girlfriend said in the video. Choi declined to provide details about the incident. Police also have refused to say what led up to the traffic stop, why Castile was pulled over or why the officer drew his gun. But the prosecutor said the shooting highlighted the need for better inter- actions between police and black residents. "We must do better in our state and in our nation to improve police-commu- nity interactions to ensure the safety of everyone in this country, but particu- larly the safety of African Americans, who dispropor- tionately lose their lives as a result," Choi said during a news conference Friday. He also acknowledged the wide reach of the Face- book video, noting "what is depicted in the video, it just makes you sad to watch all of that unfold." His comments came a day after Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton jumped into a suddenly reignited na- tional debate over how law enforcement treats people of color, saying police likely wouldn't have fired if Cas- tile had been white. "Would this have hap- pened if those passengers would have been white? I don't think it would have," Dayton said to a crowd gath- ered outside his residence Thursday. Dayton said Fri- day that he stood by his statements and had no new information about the case. Hours after Dayton's re- marks Thursday, five police officers were fatally shot and others were wounded during protests in Dallas over Castile's killing and the fatal police shooting of 37-year-old Alton Sterling. Authorities believe an Army veteran, who was later killed by police, opened fired on the Dallas officers. Sterling, who also was black, was killed Tuesday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after he scuffled with two white police officers outside a convenience store. Por- tions of that shooting were also caught on video. In the video, Castile's girlfriend, Diamond Reyn- olds, describes being pulled over for a "busted tail light." Reynolds told reporters Thursday that the 32-year- old Castile, of St. Paul, did "nothingbutwhatthepolice officer asked of us, which was to put your hands in the air and get your license and registration." The video she streamed Wednesday night on Face- book Live shows her in a car next to a bloodied Castile slumped in a seat. A clearly distraught person who ap- pears to be a police officer stands at the car's window, tells her to keep her hands up and says: "I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand out." State investigators said the two officers involved were Jeronimo Yanez and Joseph Kauser, both four- year veterans of the St. An- thony Police Department. Both were put on adminis- trative leave, as is standard. 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