Staff and Wire Reports

The gunman who fatally shot three officers in Baton Rouge briefly attended the University of Alabama.

University spokesman Chris Bryant said Sunday evening that 29-year-old Gavin Eugene Long, of Kansas City, Missouri, was a student for one semester in the spring of 2012. He was named to the school’s Dean’s List in the spring of 2012.

Bryant says university police had no interaction with Long during that time.

Long’s birthday was today. He was 29 years-old.