LANCASTER, Texas – Investigators said Monday they believe the 27-year-old son of Dallas Police Chief David Brown shot and killed a man at a suburban apartment complex and then opened fire on responding officers, killing one, before being shot to death.

Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez said investigators were still sorting out details, but it appeared David Brown Jr. shot Jeremy McMillan, 23, on Sunday evening and opened fire on Officer Craig Shaw and others when they responded.

Shaw, 37, was killed, the first officer to die in the line of duty in Lancaster, a city of 35,000 about 15 miles south of Dallas.

Brown died after other officers returned fire.

“This is a difficult time for all of us in law enforcement,” Valdez said.

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) –
Chinese state-owned banks are aggressively buying dollars for the yuan on Tuesday, traders said, but it was not clear if the buying was due to Chinese central bank intervention to keep the yuan stable.

Several traders said Chinese state-owned banks were buying dollars at various levels, suggesting they were not trying to defend the yuan at a certain level.

However, Tuesday’s aggressive buying of dollars could cut the supply of the U.S. currency in the spot market in coming days, which may in turn influence the yuan’s value.

(Reporting by Lu Jianxin, Karen Yeung and Koh Gui Qing; Editing by Edmund Klamann)

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YAOUNDE (AFP) –
Rescuers have found the wreckage of a crashed plane carrying an Australian mining tycoon and other executives, with ten bodies found so far, Cameroonian and Congolese officials said.

The plane carrying 11 people including tycoon Ken Talbot and the entire board of the Sundance Resources mining company went missing over the jungle Saturday on a flight from Yaounde, Cameroon’s capital, to Yangadou in Congo-Brazzaville.

“Ten bodies have been taken out of the wreckage. The search is continuing for the last,” Alphonse Pepa of the Congolese Transport and Civil Aviation ministry told AFP.

“The decision on where the bodies will be taken will be made tomorrow (Tuesday),” he said.

Australia’s Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has warned that retrieving the bodies could be “regrettably painstaking” after a chartered twin turboprop went down in Congo’s thick jungle at the weekend. The deaths of so many key people from Sundance Resources has left the mining company in crisis.

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