A Kansas City, Kan., police detective helping respond to a report of a suspicious person near a racetrack was fatally shot Monday.
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Kansas City, Kansas, police say one of the department’s detectives was shot and wounded near the Kansas Speedway by a suspect who later fled the scene.
Around 2:30 p.m., Ayers crashed that auto into a concrete pillar at Bannister Road and Highway 71, where he ran off and tried again to carjack more vehicles, this time in Missouri.
That Tonganoxie, Kansas, man ultimately was taken into custody in Kansas City, Missouri, when he crashed the auto he was driving while being pursued by officers, then was shot by police after trying to carjack a womans vehicle.That woman was wounded and taken to a hospital, a Kansas City, Missouri, police spokeswoman said without specifying her medical condition.
The FBI and the Missouri State Highway Patrol say they are assisting in the investigation, though they deferred questions about the matter to Kansas City, Kansas, police. A Kansas City, Kan., police detective helping r.
The only thing that he loved more than work, his mother said, was his family, which included his wife and two daughters.
Ayers then allegedly stole the detective’s unmarked police auto and took off.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A suspect in the fatal shooting of a police detective in Kansas City, Kansas, and a subsequent string of carjackings remained in the hospital Tuesday after he was shot and wounded by police during his arrest in neighboring Missouri.
In nearby Kansas City, MO, police there had been listening as the ordeal unfolded over the radio, KCMOPD Public Information Officer Darin Snapp said.
Kansas City, Missouri, police spokeswoman Amber Thomas-Hickerson says 28-year-old Curtis Ayers is in stable condition at an unspecified hospital.
At that scene, cops say he shot a woman in the shoulder as he tried to steal her auto. His name wasn’t released.
Police say 28-year-old Curtis Ayers of Tonganoxie, Kansas, was taken into custody Monday afternoon when he crashed his vehicle after exchanging gunfire with officers.
In June of 2014 Ayers tried to elude police when he took off in his vehicle with his 3.5 -year-old child inside.
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Chief Terry Zeigler said in a Tweet early Tuesday that he is thankful for the prayers for the family of 39-year-old Brad Lancaster and his department.
