Tuesday night, while serving a warrant in Kansas City, Missouri, three police officers were shot, according to authorities. According to the authorities, their condition was stable and their wounds were not life-threatening.
According to authorities, the shooting escalated into an ongoing standoff.
Time of occurrence: a little after 9:30 pm.
KC Mayor Quinton Lucas tweeted, “Too many recent events in Kansas City have served as sobering reminders of the perilous nature of police employment. I hope and pray that the three cops who were hurt this evening will recover well and that everyone on duty will make it home to their families unharmed.”
Betsy Webster, a reporter for KCTV, a CBS station in Kansas City, Missouri, tweeted that the hospital’s emergency door was closed by crime tape and that there was a “strong presence of officers” at the facility.
Betsy Webster tweeted:
Large presence of officers at @UHKCMO. Emergency entrance blocked by crime tape. https://t.co/GSKWsrSLpC pic.twitter.com/eqaOMpyq6q
— Betsy Webster (@BetsyKCTV5) March 1, 2023
There was the head of the local police union there, she said, so “the mood is tight as you would anticipate.”
According to the K.C. Police Department, the Missouri State Highway Patrol oversees the investigation.
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