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Kansas City, Kansas, officer dies after shooting

Posted at 4:29 PM, Jul 19, 2016
and last updated 2016-07-19 17:33:24-04

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A surgeon in the Kansas City, Kansas, area says that the officer who was shot multiple times by suspects in an earlier shooting has died.

University of Kansas trauma surgeon James Howard says the officer, Capt. Robert Melton, arrived just before 2:30 p.m. and that resuscitation efforts did not work.

The officer was shot Tuesday afternoon in his car as he approached people matching the description of suspects in an earlier shooting.