BATON ROUGE, Louisiana. -- Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says the shooter who killed three police officers in Baton Rouge "came in here from somewhere else to do harm to our community."
He says "this was "a diabolical attack on the very fabric of our society. This is not hyperbole. It is not an overstatement. There is nothing more important than law and order."
The governor says killing police officers "doesn't accomplish anything, it's not constructive. It's just pure unadulterated evil."
All three of the slain Baton Rouge officers lived in Denham Springs, a racially mixed city with outside Louisiana's capital.
Antique store owner Marilyn Wallace says "everybody knows everybody" in the small city, so the killings have a huge impact."
Denham Springs is in Livingston Parish, which has a history of Ku Klux Klan activity and a sharp racial divide.
But that seems remote in Denham Springs, the Wallace's white son grew up with Montrell Jackson, a slain officer who was black.
One of the three officers wounded in the attack on police in Louisiana's capital has been released from a hospital.
A statement from Our Lady of the Lake hospital in Baton Rouge says the city police officer who was reported in fair condition has now been released.
That leaves two who are still being treated.
East Baton Rouge Sheriff's spokeswoman Casey Rayborn Hicks says sheriff's deputy Nicholas Tullier remained in critical condition, at the same hospital.
Deputy Bruce Simmons is being treated at Baton Rouge General Hospital for wounds to his arm and shoulder that are not expected to be life-threatening.
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