Police officers examine a wrecked automobile that was driven by a suspect during the police investigation in an arrest Monday, May 9, 2016, in Kansas City, Mo.
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A visitation is scheduled at 4 p.m. Friday at Trinity Community Church in Kansas City, Kansas. She said she didn’t have time to react before he shot her.
Lancaster was shot Monday near the Kansas Speedway. He was in stable condition Tuesday.
Ayers was charged Tuesday in Jackson County, Missouri, with seven counts arising from that confrontation.
This comes after Kansas City police were called Monday afternoon to the area of Bannister Road and U.S. Highway 71 on a vehicle that matched the description of a suspect vehicle involved in the shooting of a police detective in Kansas City, KS, according to court records.
Ayers, of Tonganoxie, KS, now faces first-degree assault, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, resisting arrest and three counts of armed criminal action. The woman driving that vehicle was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Ayers is accused of carjacking multiple people, in one of the instances there were two children inside the auto.
Chris Schneider, a spokesman for the Wyandotte County prosecutor, said charges in Lancaster’s death would be announced Wednesday. Lancaster, a married father of two daughters, died three hours later after undergoing surgery, his department said.
The suspect – mentioned by name only once in this editorial as Curtis Ayers – has been in trouble with the law for years. Ayers was shot by police during an attempted carjacking.
He remained hospitalized Tuesday and is expected to survive.
Kansas City, Kansas, Mayor Mark Holland honored Lancaster in a Facebook post Monday night.
Kansas’ top law enforcement official says the state mourns the “senseless” shooting death of a Kansas City police detective.
His mother says 39-year-old Brad Lancaster was the ‘Rock of the family’.
A spokesman for the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission says a man accused of gunning down a Kansas City, Kansas, police detective was ordered to leave the Hollywood Casino parking lot prior to the fatal shooting. He had been with the KCK Police Department for nine years and was a military veteran. They are particularly interested in learning Ayers’ whereabouts between the time the Basehor man was robbed and when Ayers was stopped by police in Kansas City. She couldn’t immediately be reached by The Associated Press for comment, and the department said in an email Monday that Lancaster’s family has requested privacy. Police said in a statement that he later died at a hospital.
Lancaster confronted Ayers, who shot the detective at least twice and fled in Lancaster’s unmarked auto.
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Ayers is a convicted felon who was paroled from a Kansas prison in January. He was wounded in a shootout with officers.
