Suspect in Deputy’s Fatal Shooting Surrenders
A man suspected of fatally shooting a Kansas sheriff’s deputy and critically injuring another officer, surrendered after barricading himself inside his Newton home.
Kansas Bureau of Investigation spokesman Kyle Smith said Gregory Moore, 46, was suspected of shooting the officers when they rushed into his house after hearing a woman being struck. Harvey County sheriff’s deputy Kurt Ford, 38, was killed, and Hesston police Det. Chris Eilert, 33, was in stable condition after being shot four times.
Smith said the officers went to the home after a girl called police to say her mother was being beaten by a man who lived with them and that he had a gun.
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