3 officers wounded, suspect killed in Kansas City shooting
One suspect is dead and three police officers are wounded after a shooting in the area of 40 Highway and Manchester in Kansas City Sunday afternoon.
Kansas City police tweeted about the incident at 12:40 p.m. It all started at about 12:15 p.m.
{“url”:”https://twitter.com/kcpolice/status/1018550982433701888″,”author_name”:”Kansas City Police”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/kcpolice”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;There has been an officer involved shooting in the area of 40 hwy and Manchester. Large police response searching for suspect. Use caution in the area. Media responding go to old East Patrol Station 27th and Van Brunt PIO is en route. More info as we have it.&#lt;/p&#gt;— Kansas City Police (@kcpolice) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/kcpolice/status/1018550982433701888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;July 15, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″} According to Kansas City Police Chief Rick Smith, undercover and tactical officers had been doing surveillance on a murder suspect. During the surveillance, they followed the suspect to the Sky-Vu Motel and that’s when he fired shots at police with a rifle.
Two officers were hit by gunfire but are now in stable condition.
The suspect fled the area in a vehicle with another person, according to our affiliate KMBC. That vehicle and person were later found and the person taken into custody.
While police were canvassing the area of 30th and Topping, more shots were fired from a home and a detective was hit in the forearm. That officer is also in stable condition.
At 1:15 p.m., the armed suspect came out of the home and exchanged gunfire with police. He was shot and taken into custody. The Kansas City Fire Department later pronounced him dead.
Police are not actively searching for other suspects.
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The suspect was a person of interest in a recent robbery and murder of a UMKC student.
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