KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A standoff continues after three Kansas City police officers were shot and injured Tuesday night while executing a search warrant on the east side of the city, according to Independence police.
As of 11:30 a.m. local time, around 14 hours into the standoff, Sgt. Andy Bell, a spokesman for the Missouri Highway Patrol’s Troop A, said the house where the shooting occurred has not yet been cleared, but that tactical teams from the highway patrol and Kansas City police are “doing anything and everything they can to bring this to a peaceful solution.”
“Those efforts are going to continue in absence of having actual officers having to go inside of the house,” Bell said. “That’s going to be the last resort at this point considering there has been gunfire that has already been exchanged.”
