2 Kansas officers fatally shot outside market
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Authorities say a man suspected in the fatal shooting of two Topeka police officers has died after an armed standoff with law enforcement at a house in the city.
The man is suspected of killing 50-year-old Cpl. David Gogian and 29-year-old Jeff Atherly as they responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle Sunday night.
Shawnee County officials say in a statement that Kansas Bureau of Investigation officers tried to negotiate with the suspect before firing tear gas into the home.
The statement says he emerged from the home carrying a gun and officers shot him. He was taken to a hospital where he died of his injuries early Monday.
It wasn't clear if the suspect fired his gun.
The man is suspected of killing 50-year-old Cpl. David Gogian and 29-year-old Jeff Atherly as they responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle Sunday night.
Shawnee County officials say in a statement that Kansas Bureau of Investigation officers tried to negotiate with the suspect before firing tear gas into the home.
The statement says he emerged from the home carrying a gun and officers shot him. He was taken to a hospital where he died of his injuries early Monday.
It wasn't clear if the suspect fired his gun.
So sorry tht the good officers in Topeka were killed in the line of duty.  Good that their brother officers killed the miscreant who shot them.  No trial, no tax dollars expended for 10-15 years custody and  impossible""rehabilitation" of killer.  State saved the cost of electricity for electric chair or rope for hanging.
@Reis Kash ---Kansas uses lethal injection. But, I prefer the simultaneous 3-man firing squad to the forehead, where 3 of them never know who is the one who does NOT have a lethal round. This makes it easier on their collective conscience(s), because each has a 1/3rd chance that they did not take a life; each has a 2/3rds chance that they did; where none of them can be confirmed as killers. Confirmed kills are for terrorists, soldiers, and murderers.