A Kansas City, Kansas, police officer has died after being struck by a fleeing driver

A Kansas City police officer, Kansas, died after a fleeing driver struck Deflating shoots and fired, said the authorities

Kansas City, Kan. – A police officer died early Tuesday after a flight driver struck Deflating devices and fired, the authorities announced. His police chief said that death was “an intentional act of homicide”.

Officer Hunter Simoncic, 26, was the second agent of the police in Kansas City, Kansas, to die in a month. Elijah Ming, 34, assistant to the Sheriff of the County of Wyandotte, died on July 26 after being shot several times while responding to a call for domestic disturbance in the city.

In Kansas, a conviction for having intentionally killed an officer can lead to a death sentence. The suspect of Simoncic’s death, a 31 -year -old man, was not charged, but Kansas City, Kansas, police chief Karl Oakman said his intention was clear.

“This person felt the need to pass Hunter and kill him,” said Oakman at a press conference.

A prosecution had started after the police responded to a call for shots fired in a residential street around 12:30 p.m., according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, which is investigating the death of the officer. The police saw the apparently unconscious suspect in the driver’s driver’s seat, but when they woke up and left.

Oakman said the suspect then abandoned the truck for another vehicle and continued to flee. Simoncic and another officer have deployed arrest sticks on a large avenue thanks to a nearby business and shopping area. Oakman said Simoncic had followed the standard procedures, moving to the median for his safety.

However, when the glue stopped the car tires, the driver came Simoncic on the median, said Oakman. The suspect continued to flee, said the KBI, but then destroyed the vehicle and was arrested around 1 a.m.

Simoncic was declared dead in a hospital.