Iceland Police Kill First Gunman
Standoff | Suicide attack
Iceland Police Kill First Gunman December 3, 2013 Iceland police officers were forced to shoot and kill a gunman for the first time in the nation's history. He had been barricaded in his apartment after he shot and injured two officers, who have only been armed since 2011. Iceland, which has a population of just over 322,000 people, has an average of two murders a year, or 0.6 per 100,000 people. America's murder rate in 2011 was 4.7 per 100,000.
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According to the BBC, the police tried to subdue the man, a 59-year-old, with a tear-gas canister. When that didn't work, two officers entered the apartment where the man was holed up. The second officer shot the gunman after he'd already shot and injured two officers, shooting one in his helmet. Iceland's National Police Commissioner,Haraldur Johannessen, said during a press conference that the incident "has no precedent in this country
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