Brad Lancaster, a Kansas City detective, was shot and killed in May.
Advertisement
Mattern is a member of the Wichita Police Department’s Honor Guard.
“I’m just so sorry for his family”, she said.
“There has been so many lately that it hits pretty close to home regardless of where it’s been”, Mattern said.
The manhunt for the shooters continues in the Kansas City, Kansas area. The mourning band shall be worn until the conclusion of the burial ceremony honoring Captain Robert Melton who was killed in the line of duty.
“The minister says it was painful to sit in the room and see the grief-stricken faces during the announcement”. Goble knows the family of the fallen officer and hoped to place a wreath near the site of the shooting.
Spokesman John Ham said the ATF will provide help with ballistics if required, but are now assisting with the investigation.
Speaking to Daily Mail Online at the scene of the crime, Tomasic paid tribute to the fallen officer.
Capt. Robert Melton was fatally shot Tuesday while searching for a drive-by shooting suspect.
The police chief in Kansas City, Kansas, says the department hopes to present the findings of its investigation into a captain’s killing to prosecutors soon.
Two “people of interest” were taken into custody. Captain Melton was fatally shot when he encountered one of the men near the intersection of 22nd Street and Haskell Avenue.
The suspect vehicle drove off as police arrived, but it crashed into a fence and the occupants fled at 1.36pm.
Tomasic told reporters it was too early to determine whether the shooting was linked to other attacks on police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
Melton was pronounced dead at around 3:00 p.m.
“Our detective fought a good fight, but unfortunately he died from his injuries at approximately 3:30 p.m.”, Police Chief Terry Zeigler said in a tweet. Melton was shot and killed as he caught up to the shooters.
A resident at the Juniper Gardens apartment complex (pictured, Second Street and Edgerton Drive) called police at 1.33pm reporting that a auto full of people opened fire.
The Kansas City Star reports that police radio traffic indicated that multiple suspects ran from the scene.
Then, three or four occupants of the vehicle jumped out and ran away.
One person is in custody and two others who might be connected to the incident have been detained.
About a half-hour after the initial report, an officer saw people matching the suspects’ description 20 blocks from the original scene and approached them in his patrol auto.
Advertisement
Local station KMBC reports a crying friend of Melton said, “This violence has got to stop”. “The police have to be recognized as good people trying to make our communities safer and not be subjected to hateful chants and rhetoric”, the statement continued.
