Suspected KC shooter found in Prairie Village garage after police pursuit
PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. — A suspect in a Kansas City shooting early Tuesday morning was captured hiding in a Prairie Village garage after a police pursuit that crossed state lines.
The area around Windsor Park is a seemingly quiet neighborhood where you wouldn’t expect to be awakened by police flash lights looking for a shooter in your backyard. But it’s actually the second manhunt for a dangerous suspect on the same street in less than a year.
Tom Heintz woke to the flashing blue and red lights in his neighborhood Tuesday morning and saw an abandoned vehicle in the center island at Cherokee Drive and Windsor Street in front of his home.
“A group of officers including one with a dog took off across the street and in between the houses apparently in a foot chase,’ he described.
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That chase started in Kansas City at 12:30 Tuesday morning. Officers were contacted about an aggravated assault where shots were fired at 82nd and Paseo.
The suspect was spotted and police gave chase from Kansas City Missouri across state line into Prairie Village, Kansas. Some people slept through it.
“I recognized the house at the end of the street (in a Prairie Village Police social media post) and I sent it to my husband and I was like I think there was a police chase in our neighborhood last night,” Taylor Bryer said.
Other neighbors tell FOX4 they awoke to officers searching in their backyard.
“That gives you thought, you definitely check the doors to make sure they are locked. But I think if there had been any immediate danger to us, I have faith the police would have come to the door and told us any steps we had to take to be safer than we were,” Heintz said.
As police from around the area responded, drones circled overhead and police K-9 Blitz was on the hunt, Cherokee Drive neighbors had been through it all before.
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Last summer a shooter at a Kansas City McDonalds shot at multiple people, including Kansas City police officers and carjacked drivers of multiple vehicles. The suspect abandoned one of the cars just down the street at 73rd and Cherokee. That man would be be found several counties away.
But this time Blitz found the gun the person ditched running from police and then the suspect hiding out in a nearby garage. Authorities have not identified the suspect are detailed the felony charges against that person.
Kansas City police say they are still investigating what led up to the shooting. No injuries were reported.
