Brutcher to open fire on the three officers. State Police were investigating what might have led Mr. The garage door of the house was peppered with about 20 bullet holes. Brutcher used when, according to State Police officials, he fired on the three officers outside his home. But it remained unclear exactly what type of gun Mr. Wednesday’s bursts of rapid gunfire suggested an automatic weapon. Brutcher stands in the center, pointing a pistol directly at the camera. An avid hunter, he gleefully depicted his firearms on his Facebook page, which included a photo from his wedding of his buddies in matching formal attire and brandishing long guns in comic aggression. The man who authorities said pulled the trigger, Nicholas Brutcher, hardly hid his affinity for guns. And it left residents re-examining how such an attack could happen in a state that has some of the nation’s most restrictive gun laws, regulations tightened after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting some 40 minutes away from Bristol. The ambush, whose sounds were recorded on surveillance video, left two of the officers dead and the third wounded. The bullets came in bursts when three Bristol, Conn., police officers arrived at the home on Redstone Hill Road after a 911 call on Wednesday night: one fusillade of about 25 shots, a minute’s respite, another score of shots, a second pause and then a single, final round.
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