St. Joseph, Missouri—A shooting rampage killed a police officer and the gunman and injured four near 22nd and Frederick Streets in St. Josephs yesterday.
At 5:11pm, a police officer, Bradley Arn, was responding to the scene was killed when bullets hit the back window of his car seven times, striking him in the back of the head and killing him. Officer Bradley Thomas Arn was 27 years old and married with three-year-old twin daughters.
Another officer arrived at the scene and shot the gunman in the head, killing him. (Witnesses grieve over shooting.)
The shooter was a white male with a Mohawk haircut, dressed in a camouflage outfit with pockets full of ammunition, a backpack, a loaded shotgun and a knife. The gunman had no ID Investigators are trying to use fingerprints to identify him.
The shooter started firing randomly at 22nd and Frederick and headed south to Calvary Baptist Church at 22nd and Union before he was subdued.
This is the first time a St. Joseph police officer died in the line of duty since 1991.
Witnesses George McFeat and Norma Guthrie lived in the area that the gunman rampaged through. They were driving home from the grocery store when they saw Officer Arn hit by the gunman.
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