A Kansas City, Kan. police officer was in critical condition after being shot Tuesday afternoon as the city's police chief called for prayers on social media.

The police department later confirmed the officer was in critical condition.

According to the police statement, officers were originally called to the scene at around 1:35 p.m. after a 911 caller reported that at least three people were shooting at him from a vehicle. The suspects fled when officers arrived, and one of them was arrested at the scene.

The unidentified officer was shot approximately 20 minutes after the initial call, while trying to make contact with a second suspect.

The Kansas City Star reported that police swarmed the area where the shooting took place, some of them holding rifles. Several officers took cover behind cars.

The paper also reported that police were gathering at the hospital where the officer had been taken. The report described one female officer walking to her car in tears.

Tuesday marked the second time this year that a Kansas City, Kan., police officer had been shot in the line of duty. Detective Brad Lancaster, 39, was shot and killed curing a violent crime spree on May 9.

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Atrocious

Sad......very sad

It's a sad day when your first thought is that at least it was only one officer. May he rest in peace, and may his murderer be brought to justice. My second that is that the Baton Rouge murderer was from Kansas City, is there a connection?

Doubt it but who knows?




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Capt. Robert Melton of the Kansas City Police Department died Tuesday after he was shot in his car. Screenshot/Kansas City Star
An officer with the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department died Tuesday after he was shot in his car as he approached people matching the description of suspects in an earlier shooting.

Capt. Robert Melton was brought to the University of Kansas Hospital just before 2:30 p.m., but resuscitation efforts did not work, trauma surgeon James Howard said at a Tuesday afternoon news conference.

"There's a lot of pain and brokenness in our community and our nation right now, and we just want to ask everyone to be prayerful and thoughtful right now," Mayor Mark Holland of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County said.

Melton had responded to a report of person being shot at by several people in a vehicle, the police department said in a news release. When he and other officers arrived on the scene, the three or four occupants of the car jumped out and ran away.

About a half-hour after the initial call, Melton saw people who matched the suspects' descriptions about 20 blocks from the original scene and pulled up to them, police spokesman Tom Tomasic said. Before he could get out of his car, he was shot multiple times.

Melton's car was in the middle of the street with "glass and blood all around it," police spokesman Cameron Morgan said.

A second suspect was taken into custody later and police were looking for at least one more person. Authorities did not provide more details about the shooting or the possible motive.

It's the second time a Kansas City, Kansas, police officer has been shot and killed this year; in early May, a detective was fatally shot near the Kansas Speedway.

Authorities said another news conference in the Melton shooting is planned for Wednesday.

I doubt it also. My comment was more about my state of mind due to all of the horrific murders committed recently.

Been watching it. It's possible but who knows. KC has a rich history of cop shootings to go along with a rich history of abuse of authority.... Welcome to the **** cycle

How true.

Drive by shootings in that part of town are not uncommon.

damn..... 😞