FRIDAY UPDATE: Kansas City police officer critically wounded in shooting Thursday afternoon

FRIDAY UPDATE: Kansas City police officer critically wounded in shooting Thursday afternoon

THEIR INVESTIGATION A FEW HOURSLATER.RIGHT NOW, A KANSAS CITY,MISSOURI POLICE OFFICER IS INCRITICAL CONDITION AFTER HE WASSHOT IN THE HEAD IN THE LINE OFDUTY.LET’S GET OUT TO KMBC 9’S MATTEVANS WITH THE LATEST UPDATE ONTHE OFFICER’S CONDITION.MATT LIVE IN DOWNTOWN KANSASCITY, WHERE OFFICERS ARE STILLGRAPPLING WITH THE DEVASTATINGFACT THAT TWO OF THEIR OWN WERESHOT IN SEPARATE INCIDENTS INKANSAS CITY YESTERDAY.THE OFFICER IS IN CRITICALCONDITION.HE WAS SHOT WHILE RESPONDING TOA CALL NEAR 31ST AND THEN BRENT.ACCORDING TO THE HIGHWAY PATROL,THAT IS THE INVESTIGATING UNITON THI OFFICER-INVOLVEDSHOOTING AND ALLOFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING’SMOVING FORWARD.THEY SAID THE OFFICERS WERECALLED TO A MCDONALD’S WHERE AMAN WAS WAVING AROUND A GUN.THE MAN RAN FROM THE SCENE,OFFICERS FOLLOWED, AND THEN THESUSPECT TURNED AND OPENED FIREON THE OFFICERS.THE SECO OFFICER RETURNEDFIRE, SHOT AND KILLED THESUSPECT.THE OFFICER HIT BY GUNFIRE WASRUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL INCRITICAL CONDITION AND INTOEMERGENCY SURGERY.RICK SMITH FIGHTING BACKEMOTIONS OUTSIDE OF THE MEDICALCENTER LAST NIGHT, SAYING HE ISANGRY, DISAPPOINTED ABOUT THEVIOLENCE IN THE CITY, AND SAYSWE ALL NEED TO WORK 10 TIMESHARDER TO STOP THE VIOLENCE.