Dallas Police Shooting Suspect Identified
By PATRICK McGEE, MANNY FERNANDEZ, JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑAJULY 8, 2016
... The police killed the suspect using an explosive delivered by a robot ...
It appears that the dead sniper, identified as Micah X. Johnson, 25, was the sole gunman, a senior law enforcement official said. Officials at first said that at least two snipers had carried out a coordinated ambush, firing rifles from triangulated positions, including from one or more elevated posts in downtown buildings.
Mr. Johnson, an Army veteran who lived in the Dallas area, apparently had no criminal record in Texas. Investigators have not turned up any evidence that he had ties to the Black Lives Matter movement or to political groups. The official said that Justice officials have reached out to the Pentagon to obtain Mr. Johnsons military records ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/us/dallas-police-shooting.html?_r=0