The suspect involved in a shoot-out that injured three law enforcement officers in Dodge City Monday morning, has been connected to a double murder in Arizona.
Phoenix Police says a man, 28, and a woman, 27, were found shot to death in a home Sunday afternoon. The suspect and a woman companion were tracked out of state.
The pair were spotted at around 9:00 a.m. Monday morning near Minneola, Kansas, where Clark County Deputies attempted to pull them over, but the suspect sped off.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that deputies pursued him one county to the north. The Ford County Sheriff's Office and Kansas Highway Patrol then joined the pursuit.
The KBI said that gunfire erupted once the vehicle came to a stop in an area of Dodge City that includes a John Deere dealership and a gas station.
The release said the suspect was fatally shot and that a woman in the vehicle was critically wounded. Neither of their names was released.
Two deputies from Ford County and one from Clark County also were wounded. Two of them were rushed to a Wichita hospital with injuries described as serious, while the condition of the third deputy was described as good. A highway patrol trooper was bit by a K-9 officer during the melee but wasn't hurt badly.
Ford County posted on its website that there was no additional danger to the community. And Clark County Sheriff John Ketron described what happened in an email only as an “active investigation," directing additional questions to the KBI.