Three Atlanta police officers have been suspended amid an investigation into the shooting death of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid, the city’s police chief announced.

A police official today said narcotics officers in the US were justified in returning fire on a 92-year-old woman they shot dead after she shot them as they tried to serve a warrant at her house.

A man being escorted into court for his rape trial yesterday stole a deputy’s gun, killed the judge and two other people and carjacked a reporter’s vehicle to escape, setting off a massive manhunt and creating widespread chaos across Atlanta.

A former bodyguard to hip-hop mogul Sean ”P Diddy” Combs was one of two men killed in a gun fight outside an Atlanta nightclub.

A MAN suspected in the killings of five women was arrested peacefully outside a tyre store, ending a months-long manhunt in a case that terrified women across Louisiana in the United States.