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    "Have a safe summer," reads a sign at the entrance to John D Horn high school in Mesquite, Texas, from which Dallas gunman Micah Johnson graduated in 2009. The man who this week shot dead five police officers before being killed by police using a remotely controlled explosive device, was already a member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps when he left school. By 2013, as a full-blown reservist, he was deployed to Afghanistan as a mason and carpenter with the US Army’s 420th Engineer Brigade. He is not believed to have seen combat, though he was awarded an Army Achievement Medal and a Nato Medal. Yet whatever his state of mind when he left for the Middle East, he returned to the US the following year a troubled man. Johnson left the Army in 2015 as a private first...

    The city of Dallas was plunged into chaos overnight as five police officers were shot dead and at least six others were wounded when dozens of shots were fired during a downtown protest against violence. It was the deadliest day for US law enforcement since 9/11. There was a lengthy standoff between police officers and one man suspected to be one of the shooters, before, according to numerous local reports, he was shot dead. It was unclear whether the suspect was shot by police or killed himself. The Guardian was unable to confirm the reports. Three other suspects were in custody. The Dallas police chief, David Brown, said he did not have a “complete comfort level” that all suspects had been apprehended. The suspect involved in the standoff had warned that bombs had been p...