DALLAS—The blood stains have been removed. So has most of the debris. But some remnants of the blast that ended Micah Johnson’s deadly police ambush in Dallas remain at El Centro College: a wall and door frame blown back several feet, and wires and metal dangling from a ceiling with no tiles.
Officials at the downtown community college on Tuesday showed reporters the damage left after Dallas police deployed a remote-controlled robot with about 1 pound of the explosive C4, set it off and killed Johnson early on July 8.
Johnson had opened fire on police officers working at a protest about recent killings by police of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota before making his way into the college. For about 4½ hours, Johnson hid around a corner near the end of a long, narrow hallway of classrooms on the second floor of El Centro’s Building B, the college’s police chief, Joseph Hannigan, said. From there, Johnson fired about 200 bullets at officers, Hannigan said.
“There’s no way for an officer to get in here and make an approach on the subject,” he said, standing next to the spot where Johnson’s body was found. “That’s why the decision was made to do it mechanically.”
