By Ileana Morales, Waveney Ann Moore, Jamal Thalji and Emily Nipps, Times Staff Writers
Monday, January 24, 2011
Officers gather near the scene of Monday morning’s shooting at 3734 28th Ave. S in St. Petersburg.
ST. PETERSBURG — Two St. Petersburg police officers and a gunman were fatally shot to death and a U.S. marshal was injured early Monday in gunfire that broke out as police tried to serve a domestic battery warrant at a St. Petersburg home.
"Our community has suffered a loss today," St. Petersburg police Chief Chuck Harmon said during a somber press conference with Mayor Bill Foster outside Bayfront Medical Center.
Suncoast Benevolent Association President Mark Marland confirmed the fallen officers as Tom Baitinger and Jeffrey Yaslowitz.
By Monday afternoon, police were able to enter the home where the shooting happened. They confirmed the shooter, Hydra Lacy Jr., was also dead.
The St. Petersburg officers ...