KANSAS CITY, Kan. –Law enforcement authorities investigating a car theft that led to a chase and fatal Kansas officer shooting continue to search for a suspect who ran from police.
Just before 11:30p.m. May 10, Kansas City Kansas Police learned a reported stolen silver Hyundai Sonata was in the area of S. 7th Street Trafficway and Interstate 35.
A citizen called 911 to report that a silver car had stopped in the 1500 block of S. 7th Street Trafficway and subjects were running from it. At nearly the same time, an officer arrived and observed three suspects fleeing from the car.
The officer ran after the suspects up the Interstate 35 South on-ramp. During the pursuit, one of the suspects hid in thick brush and fired at the officer from behind. The KCKPD officer returned fire, striking the suspect later identified as Jordan Cole, 18, of Kansas City, Kansas, multiple times. Cole was pronounced dead at the scene.
The officer and a second responding officer were then able to take a 16-year-old boy into custody. The police officers involved in the exchange of gunfire were not injured.
On Tuesday, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation reported the third suspect who ran from the car has not yet been identified or apprehended.