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Kansas City mourns the Loss of a police officer After he had been fatally hit by a driver in front of the law enforcement authorities while trying to use stop sticks.
The Kansas City Police Department in Kansas identified the killed officer as a 26-year-old Hunter Simoncic. The young officer completed the department of the department in 2023.
Simoncic was hit early Tuesday morning when he started Stop Sticks in State Avenue to stop a driver who fled the law enforcement authorities, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
Dennis Mitchell III., 31, is accused of being hit Simoncic, and is charged with capital murder, fled or tried to withdraw a police officer, the criminal possession of a weapon and two charges for theft, according to the district prosecutor of Wyandotte, Mark Dupree, on Wednesday.
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The 26 -year -old police officer from Kansas City, the police officer of Kansas, was killed on Tuesday when a driver who fled to the law enforcement authorities met him with a truck while using stop sticks. (Officer Down Memorial Page)
The incident started around 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, as Kansas City Officers According to the department, reported on reports on shots fired on the Avenue Everett.
The officers arrived at the location at 12:40 p.m. to find an unconscious man who was later identified as Mitchell in the driver’s seat of a truck. He woke up as they approached him and fled the scene and triggered persecution.
Mitchell left the truck, which he drove for another truck, and fled further from flight, said KBI.
While the police continue to exclude Mitchell, Simoncic and another KKPD officer to browse stop sticks. When Mitchell approached this place, he allegedly drove on Simoncic, hit him with the second truck and drove off.
Simoncic was brought to the Medical Center of the University of Kansas, where he was declared dead.
Dennis Mitchell III., 31, is accused of having killed Kansas City, the police officer of Kansas, Hunter Simoncic, and among other things for capital murder in his death. (Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office)
After Mitchell allegedly met the officer, he destroyed at 12:55 p.m. on the KAW Drive. He was taken into custody and brought to the same hospital as Simoncic for treatment. He was not released long afterwards and taken to Wyandotte County’s prison.
The police said they later learned that both trucks Mitchell had driven on Tuesday evening Stolen reported.
The department said in a Facebook post that Simoncic’s death conveys a “deep feeling of loss and pain”.
Before he came to Kckpd, Simoncic worked as a shift manager at the Southeast Kansas Regional Juvenile Habt Center. He also had a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in forensic science.
He was also a volunteer at Benjamin Banneker Elementary School and read the children a week through a program called Lead to Read KC.
The patrol vehicle from Slain Kansas City, the police officer of Kansas, Hunter Simoncic, was decorated with flowers and candles in front of a vigil planned. (Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office)
“While he grew up in a small town in the southeast of Kansas, he decided to serve our community because in his words I have really deservedly deserved to make positive changes in a community in his words. “Let it sink,” wrote the department.
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Simoncic’s death comes just a few weeks after Elijah Ming, a member of a member of Kansas City, was shot and killed on duty.
“God Speed ​​Hunter. You and Elijah just rest, we will take it from here,” Kckpd wrote on Facebook.
His funeral is planned for Wednesday, September 3.
