Charlotte's deadliest police shootout: New timeline shows how 4 officers were killed over 20 minutes
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A new timeline of a Charlotte shootout that left four officers dead on April 29 has been released by the Mecklenburg County District Attorney's Office.
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"This is the deadliest attack on law enforcement in Charlotte's history. It is one of the deadliest, single incident attacks on law enforcement across our country," Daniel Redford, president of the Charlotte Fraternal Order of Police lodge, told Fox News Digital. "We've had to say goodbye to four heroes. If there's anything we can learn from this incident, as we do with so many other incidents, to prevent this from happening again and save officers' lives, first responders' lives, that would be the only takeaway."
Here's the latest timeline of the shootout released by Mecklenburg County District Attorney Spencer B. Merriweather III as part of his investigation into 23 officers who returned fire at Hughes on April 29:
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