Details remain hazy, but State Police spokesmen say two people are dead after police gunfire in West Memphis.

Various TV outlets are reporting that the two were killed when officers fired at suspects who’d run over and injured the legs of a West Memphis police officer about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday at 18th and McAuley.

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