One slain officer only married two weeks, another had two-year-old child

One was a newlywed. Another had survived multiple tours in Iraq.

The stories of the officers gunned down in a sniper attack in Dallas during a protest over recent police shootings of black men emerged yesterday as their identities became known.

Officer Brent Thompson, 43, had worked as an officer for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) authority for the last seven years.