Deputy Elijah Ming, 34, was shot and killed Saturday around 3:45 p.m. by a barricaded suspect in Kansas City, Kansas.
FOX4KC noted that “Ming was initially called to the area for a civil standby at about 3:30 p.m. after a woman requested that a law enforcement officer accompany her as she moved out of her home.”
The woman said the suspect, 38-year-old Shawn Harris, had threatened her friends with a gun as they tried to help her out, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation reported.
The suspect “barricaded himself inside the residence and opened fire, striking Deputy Elijah Ming. [The suspect] continued to fire on first responders,” the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office explained in a statement.
Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Department
FOX News reported that Ming was taken to the hospital after being shot and it was there that he succumbed to his wounds.
Ming was a Wyandotte County deputy and “had worked for the agency for nearly nine years.” Harris surrendered to other law enforcement officers around 6 p.m.
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