What we know about Gavin Eugene Long, suspect in Baton Rouge police shooting

The shooter who gunned down and killed at least three Baton Rouge police officers has been identified as Gavin Long, The Associated Press reported.

The unnamed official familiar with the investigation who identified Long did not have any other details about him.

The attack which left three officers dead and three others wounded occurred on Long's birthday, July 17, according to the Times-Picayune. 

A spokesman for the Louisiana State Police says they believe Long was the only shooter. However, officials are unsure whether he had accomplices.

Eugene Gavin Long, who tued 29 today, has been identified as the man who shot three police officers dead and wounded three more, one of whom is in critical condition, in Baton Rouge

"We are not ready to say he acted alone," Maj. Doug Cain said.

Cain said two other "persons of interest" were being detained in Addis, a town near Baton Rouge.

Long, 29, was shot and killed at the scene. Authorities initially believed that two other assailants might be at large, but hours later said that no other active shooters were in the city.

The shooting took place just before 9 a.m., less than a mile from police headquarters.

Law enforcement officers converged on a house in Kansas City, Missouri, that is listed for a man named Gavin Long. Authorities were trying to ensure that there was no one in the house.

Montrell Jackson, 32, a new father who celebrated his 10-year anniversary with the Baton Rouge Police Department last month, has been named among the three officers shot dead in today's attack in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Matthew Gerald, 41, a married father-of-two who had been working on his own for just 12 days, has also been identified as among the three cops killed. A third sheriff's deputy, who was aged 45 and also married, has not been named