Police: Employee fires gun inside Kansas City parole office, is arrested after standoff
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Posted: 12/13/2012
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By: 41 Action News Staff
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A standoff at a Kansas City parole office has ended after an armed employee who reportedly fired a shot in the building was arrested without further incident.
Police on the scene say an employee fired a gun at a Kansas City probation office and locked himself in his office.
Officers were called about 11:30 a.m. to the District 4R-Kansas City Parole and Probation Office, 1330 Brush Creek.
Authorities said nobody was injured when the shooting happened.
The employee was in a secure room and didn’t appear to be a danger to anyone else in the building, a police spokesman said.
The building was evacuated as a precaution.
We are working on gathering more information and will post it here as soon as it becomes available.
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