Louisiana Police: Baton Rouge Gunman 'Intentionally Targeted and Assassinated' Officers

The gunman who fatally shot three police officers in Baton Rouge Sunday "intentionally targeted and assassinated" them, police said.

This frame grab made from a video posted on YouTube on July 10, 2016, shows Gavin Eugene Long speaking as his online persona Cosmo Setepenra. Long killed law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, La., on Sunday, July 17, 2016. (YouTube via AP)

Louisiana State Police Superintendent Col. Mike Edmonson said during a press conference that Gavin Long, 29, conducted a "calculated act" of violence against police.

Police on #BatonRouge: "No doubt whatsoever that these officers were intentionally targeted and assassinated." https://t.co/KWR8zwBHob

— ABC News (@ABC) July 18, 2016

Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie Jr. added that police are up against a “force that is not playing by the rules.”

“He was not going to stop here,” Dabadie said of the gunman. “I have no doubt he was heading to our headquarters. He was going to take more lives. That shot that our SWAT team made was a hell of a shot.”

#BatonRouge police chief says shooter was not going to stop: “I have no doubt he was heading to our headquarters.” pic.twitter.com/6NKXKGJLCw

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 18, 2016

Dabadie got choked up while reading a note from the wife of Montrell Jackson, one of the officers slain in the attack.

#BatonRouge police chief reads message from slain officer’s wife: He loved his family & he loved his fellow officers pic.twitter.com/sPPXby1GIE

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 18, 2016

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