KANSAS CITY, Kan. — An off-duty Wyandotte County Sheriff’s deputy was shot early Friday morning in Kansas City, Kansas, after witnessing a burglary and confronting the suspect.
Officers dispatched to the Prairie View at Village West apartments, located at 11024 Delaware Parkway in KCK, around 5:27 a.m. after receiving a call from the off-duty deputy that they had been shot.
A Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson said the shooting happened as part of an exchange of gunfire with a suspect at the apartment complex. The off-duty deputy “intercepted” a burglary in process and when he confronted the suspect, the suspect shot at the deputy, according to a the spokesperson and a KCKPD press release.
The deputy was transported with non-life threatening injuries to an area hospital.
The spokesperson did not know if the suspect had been taken into custody.
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