Video of Jon Belmar update below article

ferguson shots 5(Via Saint Louis Post Dispatch) Officers swarmed a home in Ferguson Thursday morning in a search for those responsible for the shooting of two police officers outside the Ferguson police department about midnight.

The two officers shot early Thursday are expected to survive, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said. They were treated at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and released Thursday, though one still had a bullet lodged behind his ear.

Belmar called the shooting as protests outside the department dwindled an “ambush” on police. At least three shots were fired at police just after midnight as police faced protesters who had gathered outside the police station, police said.

Tactical officers surrounded a brick bungalow on Dade Avenue near Tiffin Avenue. The home is about four blocks west of the police department. Officers went in with dogs about 9:30 a.m. A neighbor said he saw police bring two men out of the home. The woman who neighbors say rents the home was also brought out in handcuffs.

Police said they were questioning the three but they were not under arrest.

The neighbor also heard police talk of a third man hiding in the attic. Police later tried to enter the attic from the roof but were beginning to wrap up about 10:15 a.m. without bringing anyone else out.

Bruce Patterson, who lives across the street from the home being searched, said his immediate reaction when he saw police descend on the home: “Panic.”

“I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “All along I’ve thought, they’re protesting four blocks away at the police station, keep it away. And guess what? It’s here.”

He said he knows the woman brought out of the house in handcuffs. She rents the home and has a six-year-old boy who visits Patterson to play with his grandchildren often. The woman being arrested asked Patterson to care for the boy until his grandmother could come pick him up. (continue reading)

Froggie has noticed – The “Red Car” we spotted in video last night -just before shots were fired at Ferguson Police- is identified outside a home searched by police this morning.

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