The detective, 39-year-old Brad Lancaster, was shot at least twice around 12:30 p.m. Monday near the Kansas Speedway.
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After a manhunt, Ayers was shot by Kansas City, Missouri police near Highway 71 and Bannister after he shot a woman and tried to take her vehicle around 2:30 p.m. “He was the rock of the family”.
Multiple media outlets report Lancaster was an Air Force veteran and formerly served on the Platte County Sheriff’s Department. She couldn’t immediately be reached by The Associated Press.
Police said the detective was shot at least twice about 12:30 p.m. Monday while helping respond to a report of a suspicious person near the Kansas Speedway. Police said when officers made contact with the suspicious party he fled the scene on foot.
Police say the shooter fled in the detective’s auto, then carjacked a vehicle with two children inside before abandoning that vehicle, leaving the children unharmed. He died after undergoing surgery, his department said in a statement.
The search for suspect Curtis Ayers led to a road closure, traffic delays, and school lockouts in the Bonner Springs/Edwardsville Unified School District 204. They were able to get out of the vehicle unharmed.
The suspect, Curtis Ayers, reportedly fled from the scene, later hijacking a auto with kids in it before ditching that vehicle in Basehor. 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.
Police said the gunman shot the detective then fled in the officer’s unmarked auto.
Lancaster was killed Monday afternoon near the Kansas Speedway.
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.
Brad Lancaster, the Kansas City, Kan., detective who was fatally shot Monday, excelled at practically everything he did. Police said in a statement that he later died at a hospital. Police spent the day in Tonganoxie investigating and shortly before 7 o’clock Monday night left with four bags full of evidence.
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