War on Cops: Police Are Now Being Violently Targeted In Their Own Homes

For the second time in recent days, a Durham, North Carolina Police Department officer was the target of a violent attack. Only this time, the ambush took place in the officer’s private residence.

A Durham police officer’s home was damaged after it was shot at Monday afternoon, the department said.

The officer, who was not identified, was inside his home at the Atrium Apartments on Meriwether Drive at about 2 p.m. when the outer pane of his dining room sliding glass door was shattered, police said. The projectile did not enter the apartment. …

The officer looked out a window and saw a man running into the woods behind his apartment, police said. A detailed description of the suspect was not available.

At this point in the investigation, not much else is known about the alleged incident. There is speculation that the weapon used in the crime might even have been a pellet gun, but those reports are unconfirmed.

BearingArms.com has more:

The DPD is taking the official line that they don’t know if the officer’s home was targeted. Unofficially, they feel that the suspect knew exactly which apartment the officer lived in, and that this was an attempt to terrorize the officer.

This is the second time in recent days that a Durham Police Department officer has been targeted.

Officer J.T. West avoided an assassination attempt on Thursday after two men attempted to sneak up on his marked patrol car from behind. They fired six shots at West in an apparent attempt to murder him in a manner similar to the way NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were killed in Brooklyn, New York on December 20.

This is the first-known attempt to target an officer in his home that Bearing Arms has encountered among recent attacks on police.

The number of police officers killed in the line of duty by armed felons is up 56% in 2014, with 15 “ambush” type killings.

Source:http://www.wral.com