This undated image provided by the Kansas City Police Department shows Brad Lancaster. The police detective was fatally shot Monday, May 9, 2016, while investigating reports of a suspicious person near a racetrack in Kansas City, Kan. He died after undergoing surgery, his department said in a statement. (Kansas City Police Department via AP)
Republished May 10, 2016 - 4:41 PM
Original Publication Date May 10, 2016 - 5:10 AM
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Latest on the fatal shooting of a police detective in Kansas City, Kansas (all times local):
6 p.m.
The Kansas City, Kansas, police detective killed in a confrontation on Monday will be honoured with a public funeral.
The funeral for Detective Brad Lancaster will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Children's Mercy Park, home of the Sporting Kansas City soccer team, in Kansas City, Kansas.
A visitation is scheduled at 4 p.m. Friday at Trinity Community Church in Kansas City, Kansas.
Lancaster died Monday after being shot while trying to stop a suspect who was fleeing from officers near the Kansas Speedway.
The 39-year-old Lancaster is survived by a wife and two children.
A suspect, 28-year-old Curtis Ayers, was arrested after he was shot in a confrontation with Kansas City, Missouri, officers hours after Lancaster was shot.
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5 p.m.
The Wyandotte County district attorney plans to file charges Wednesday against the man suspected of killing a Kansas City, Kansas, police detective.
District Attorney Jerome Gorman has scheduled a noon news conference to announce charges against 28-year-old Curtis Ayers, of Tonganoxie, Kansas.
Ayers is suspected in Monday's killing of Detective Brad Lancaster, who died at a hospital after being shot during a confrontation near a racetrack in Kansas City, Kansas.
Ayers was later arrested in Kansas City, Missouri, after being shot by officers there. He was in stable condition Tuesday.
He was charged Tuesday in Jackson County, Missouri, with seven counts arising from his confrontation with Missouri officers.
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3 p.m.
A parolee suspected of gunning down a Kansas City, Kansas, police detective has been charged in Missouri with felonies linked to gun-related crimes he allegedly committed before he was shot by police and arrested.
Prosecutors in Jackson County charged 28-year-old Curtis Ayers with first-degree assault, resisting arrest, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, and three counts of armed criminal action.
Ayers was hospitalized Tuesday in stable condition.
Prosecutors in Kansas' Wyandotte County still were weighing charges against Ayers in connection with Monday's shooting death of Brad Lancaster.
Court documents included with Tuesday's charges allege Ayers, when cornered by police, shot and wounded a woman during an attempted carjacking and fired at another motorist.
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10:05 a.m.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is ordering flags in Wyandotte County to be lowered to half-staff in memory of a slain police detective.
Brownback directed the county's flags lowered Tuesday through sundown Wednesday in 39-year-old Brad Lancaster's honour.
Police say Lancaster died at a hospital Monday about three hours after being shot near a racetrack in Kansas City, Kansas.
A suspect, 28-year-old Curtis Ayers, has been arrested. Ayers was shot by police during an attempted carjacking. He is in stable condition Tuesday at a hospital.
The local Fraternal Order of Police says a candlelight vigil in Lancaster's memory is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall in Kansas City, Kansas.
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9:40 a.m.
Kansas' top law enforcement official says the state mourns the "senseless" shooting death of a Kansas City police detective.
Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in a statement Tuesday that he extends his prayers to the family of 39-year-old Brad Lancaster's family and to Lancaster's former colleagues.
Police say Lancaster died at a hospital Monday about three hours after being shot while responding to a report of a suspicious person near a racetrack.
A suspect, 28-year-old Curtis Ayers, was arrested after being shot by police during an attempted carjacking after he crashed another car. He was in stable condition Tuesday at a hospital.
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8:45 a.m.
Police say a suspect in the shooting death of a police detective in Kansas City, Kansas, remains hospitalized after officers shot and wounded him during his capture.
Kansas City, Missouri, police spokeswoman Amber Thomas-Hickerson says 28-year-old Curtis Ayers is in stable condition at an unspecified hospital.
Thomas-Hickerson says a woman who police say was shot by Ayers as he tried to hijack her car also is in stable condition with injuries not considered life-threatening.
Police say 39-year-old Brad Lancaster died at a hospital Monday about three hours after being shot while helping respond to a report of a suspicious person near a racetrack.
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7 a.m.
The police chief in Kansas City, Kansas, is expressing gratitude for the outpouring of support after a detective was fatally shot.
Chief Terry Zeigler said in a Tweet early Tuesday that he is thankful for the prayers for the family of 39-year-old Brad Lancaster and his department.
Lancaster was shot at least twice about 12:30 p.m. Monday while responding to a report of a suspicious person near the Kansas Speedway. Police said in a statement that he died at a hospital.
Police say the shooter fled in the detective's car, then carjacked a vehicle with two children inside before abandoning that vehicle, leaving the kids unharmed. A suspect has been taken into custody in Kansas City, Missouri.
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1:10 a.m.
Police say a Kansas City, Kansas, detective was shot and killed, and a man who'd been sought for questioning in that incident was later wounded and arrested after a shootout with police in neighbouring Missouri.
Police say the detective was shot at least twice about 12:30 p.m. Monday while helping respond to a report of a suspicious person near the Kansas Speedway. Police said in a statement that he later died at a hospital. His name wasn't released.
Police say the shooter fled in the detective's car, then carjacked a vehicle with two children inside before abandoning that vehicle, leaving the kids unharmed.
Police sought 28-year-old Curtis Ayers for questioning in the shooting. He ultimately was taken into custody in Kansas City, Missouri, when he crashed his car after exchanging gunfire with officers.
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