No arrests so far in wounding of two police officers in Fergusonhttp://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/no-arrests-so-far-in-wounding-of-two-police-officers/article_f05327d6-5eff-595f-9de9-2ac279395d27.htmlFERGUSON • No one is in custody and no arrests appear to be imminent, police said Friday as the investigation of who shot two officers at a protest in Ferguson continued through a second day.
Investigators are working around the clock, and substantial rewards have been offered, said Jon Belmar, chief of the St. Louis County police, at a press conference at department headquarters in Clayton.
A county officer, 41, was wounded in the shoulder and a Webster Groves officer, 32, in the face just after midnight Thursday while on a security line during a protest outside the Ferguson police station on South Florissant Road. Both were treated and released at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Three shots were heard and believed to have been fired from about 125 yards away, in a neighborhood along Tiffin Avenue, to the northwest. Police called it an “ambush” and said it appeared that a handgun had been used.
Belmar declined Friday to discuss any specific evidence or from exactly where the shots had been fired. He said that it was “a long way off” but that the target was a line of officers and hitting one did not require a “miracle shot.”
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